Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

Roman cultural practices began to seep into its territories as it lost control to Germanic tribes. Archaeologists have just ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. "Unusual rocks," discovered in Iceland, are believed to ...

According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 years, may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire ...

Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded ...

A team of international scientists, led by researchers from the University of Southampton, has traced strange, out-of-place ...

In the “best-case scenario” the neomonarchist thinker Curtis Yarvin has postulated, America faces emulating the fall of the Roman republic. In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire.

For decades, historians have debated to what extent climate cooling may have influenced the decline of the Roman Empire. This new study provides physical evidence that reinforces the hypothesis that ...