An international research team has created a new map of the Roman Empire — and it expands the ancient road network by more ...

Historian Elliott (Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy) evaluates in this enlightening account the impact of the Antonine plague of 165 CE on the demise of the Pax Romana, a period of ...

COVID-19 was first identified in the city of Wuhan, China, in December of 2019. The World Health Organization declared it a pandemic in March. As of July, over 12 million people have been infected ...

The western Roman empire’s economic and political decline started with the smallpox-like Antonine plague that began in A.D. 165, and intensified the following century with the Ebola-like Cyprian ...

It’s no secret that the Romans liked to build roads. But European researchers say they've discovered an extra 100,000 ...

Before March of this year, few probably thought disease could be a significant driver of human history. Not so anymore. People are beginning to understand that the little changes COVID-19 has already ...

For their study in Science Advances, the researchers reconstructed temperatures and precipitation for the period from 200 BC to 600 AD, with a resolution of three years. This means that two data ...

A plague that ravaged through Roman Italy has been linked to extreme temperature drops in the region, scientists say. The Justinian Plague—the first recorded wave of bubonic plague to spread through ...