Reportedly, this was the location where Roman forces clashed with local Suanetes tribes in a fierce struggle to seize control ...

Even then, most contemporaries believed that the empire could be revived and modernized. The Holy Roman Empire finally began its true terminal decline during and after its involvement in the French ...

Much of Attila’s infamy comes from his relentless campaign westward into Europe where he pillaged the riches of the Roman Empire ... they went. At its height, the empire of Attila stretched ...

The Roman Empire began in 27BC when Augustus became the first official Roman emperor. At its height, it spanned as far west as northern England and as far east as Syria. Life in the Roman Empire ...

However, the accession of Saxony's kings from AD 962 made the east a formidable political organisation in its own right. Several centuries of eastwards expansion and consolidation would follow, ...

The Empire was a body, he concluded, ‘incapable of regulating its own members; insecure against external dangers’, and with a history marked by ‘general imbecility, confusion and misery’. It is no ...

Upon completion, the Roman Telescope will head into space and take up residence at the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point. That's ...

but Bohemia and Habsburg Hungary as well as most of Protestant Europe within the Holy Roman Empire. While its ultimate causes prove to be elusive, the war was to prove a roller-coaster as Habsburg ...

One of the farthest corners of the Roman Empire, Judaea was a land of ancient ... As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos. Its population had split into hostile groups.

Restored in the 1940s, the 12th-century Banteay Samre, devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu, recalls the medieval Khmer Empire at its height ... was subversive to the Roman Empire," says Fletcher.

However, they were soon allowed to return and continue their independent existence under Roman law. The temple in Jerusalem Although each Jewish community worshipped at its own synagogue ...

Italy is auctioning off a vast 16th-century castle built for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, in an attempt to raise millions ...