The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the Church to this day. Their papacies were in the era of the Roman Empire, which ...

and the Eastern Roman Empire's Plague of Justinian. The new study's connection to those tumultuous years began tangentially, after the scientists behind it used satellite images to discover that a ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period ... the empire spread through North Africa, through the West all the way through Great Britain, to the East all the way to eastern Syria, and that embraced ...

Within 800 years after Rome’s founding as a city-state - traditionally dated at 750 BC - the Roman Empire had expanded west to Britain, south into North Africa and east into Syria and Iraq. The vast ...

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.