When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Diocletian, who once ruled territory that now includes Croatia, tried and failed to rein in inflation by dictating prices.

Ancient shipwrecks have given scientists fresh insights into why the final remnants of the Roman Empire collapsed - nearly 1,000 years after the fall of Rome. In 330AD, Emperor Constantine split ...

Following the death of Theodosius I in 395, the entire Roman world split in half: the Western Roman Empire—centering on the new imperial capitals of Milan and Ravenna—and the Eastern Roman ...

Constantine's death would drive a crack through the Roman Empire, splitting it into West and East. Over the next several hundred years, parts of it would even fall to foreign invaders. But a new ...

The Crisis of the Third Century was a period of decline that spanned 235 to 284 CE and ultimately saw the Empire split into three separate political entities: the Roman Empire, the Gallic Empire ...

The Byzantine Empire is not always recognised as the crucial link that connected the classical world with modern Europe.

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...

Roman religion was split in two: privately ... seen as gods and was often commemorated with temples and coins. As the Empire expanded, it took control of new countries that had their own cultures ...