The fall of Rome in 476 is a historical turning point that was invented nearly 50 years later as a pretext for a devastating war. The fact that it has since become recognized as the end of an epoch ...

When Romulus Augustulus was deposed in 476, later historians marked it as the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Yet for contemporaries in Italy, the Roman system endured under Odoacer, with the Senate ...

Today we often hear about “fake news” in politics and media. But what if something similar already existed in antiquity? The ...

German author and poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe once said about Rome, “Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.” The city has a complex and rich history behind it. Once the capital of a sprawling ...

(via SciShow) There’s a saying that, when Rome falls, the whole world will fall. Which frankly seems a little melodramatic and egotistical on the part of the Romans. Except that they kinda had a point ...

EJ Antoni is the is the Acting Director for the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, Chief Economist, and Richard Aster Fellow at ...

More than any other event in Western history the so-called “Decline and Fall of Rome” has been weaponized for centuries to promote a variety of social, religious, or ideological agendas. British ...