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 ...

By Joe Orovic Reporting from Split, Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor ... was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of everything from purple thread and feathers ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the farthest corners of the Roman Empire, Judaea was a land of ancient ... Its population had split into hostile groups. Preachers and prophets roamed the countryside, drawing enormous ...

There were different types of soldiers in the Roman army and they were split into different groups ... but came from places within the Roman empire, including Europe, North Africa and the Middle ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town ...

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...