Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.

A new book examines the rise and fall of the Carolingian dynasty ... A map of the Carolingian Empire's borders at its height in 814 C.E. (outlined in pink) and its subsequent partition in 843 ...

Glaciers retreating at an ever-faster pace revealed the eerie, sometimes grisly remains, giving rise to a new ... infrastructure for the empire, mainly." They also left Roman coins at crossings ...

In 386 BCE Rome was sacked by itinerant Gallic tribes, and was still a regional power of limited relevance, whereas in 146 BCE it had built a powerful Mediterranean empire, able to destroy once-mighty ...

A bitter election battle had seen the Conservative government fall after Irish Nationalist ... credited as the man who built the British Empire, although much of this was done in the role of ...

Of Rome will throw you into the chaotic end of times for one of the biggest empires in history, set for release next month ...

In Dollars and Dominion, Mary Bridges, a business journalist turned historian, lays out the century-old beginnings of the United States’ financial empire. In Chokepoints, Edward Fishman, who worked at ...