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 ...

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 ...

Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

European genetic research offers surprising insights into who lived along the Roman frontier as the empire fell and Germanic ...

Genome evidence points to a slow blending of peoples — not a violent tide of invaders — that laid the foundations of modern ...