The fall of the Roman Empire is one of history’s greatest mysteries, and determining the year it truly ended is a complex ...

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Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem during the ...

Marie Antoinette—played by Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola's stunning new film—used her distinctive personal style to defy the rigid etiquette and scheming courtiers of Versailles. Kennedy Fraser looks ...

The Western Roman Empire famously ended in A.D. 476 when its last emperor abdicated the throne. But the city of Rome ...

Peter H. Wilson, Bolstering the Prestige of the Habsburgs: The End of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, The International History Review, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec., 2006), pp. 709-736 ...

A new AI by Google DeepMind called Aeneas is designed to investigate ancient texts, looking for patterns and clues.

A stash of "unusually large" 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists searching for an explanation, they told AFP on Thursday. Eight large shoes ...

A new exhibition is spotlighting the women who have long been sidelined in histories of the Roman Empire—from mothers and weavers to entrepreneurs and influential tavern owners June 3, 2025 Cool ...

Big change in the military is typically framed as a “revolution” or “transformation” and is almost always about “innovating” and “adapting” to new technology. Yet the most important—and most worrisome ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Journal of Economic History is devoted to the multidisciplinary study of history and economics, and is of interest not only to ...