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Ancient Rome faces total collapse - then the battlefield erupts into carnage

The Battle of Volturnus in 554 is often remembered as one of the final major victories of the Roman world before the empire’s ...
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The Fall of the Roman Empire Was Less a Clash of Civilizations and More an Opportunity to Mix and Mingle, a New Genetics Study Shows

Researchers who analyzed genomes from early medieval graves in modern-day Germany hypothesize that people from the former ...
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‘A miracle and a warning’: Ancient tower collapse reveals a crisis facing modern Rome

In video footage, it almost looks like an earthquake. The ancient Torre dei Conti, which has occupied a street corner of central Rome since medieval times, is suddenly enveloped in billowing clouds as ...
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Ancient DNA shows Rome’s fall led to gradual mixing

A new analysis of 258 ancient genomes from southern Germany reveals that the fall of the Western Roman Empire triggered gradual genetic mixing, not mass barbarian invasions. Researchers found ...