It's been over 1,500 years since the collapse of the Roman Empire ... And no wonder: at its peak the empire covered nearly two million square miles (more than five million sq km), spanning ...

the Eastern Roman Empire would last for another 1,000 years before it too fell. At its peak, the Byzantine Empire stretched from southern Spain to Syria, on to to modern-day Turkey and Greece ...

Recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Volubilis is considered one of the most significant and well-preserved Roman ...

Hüssen faces north, the Roman Empire at his back ... and mountain watchtowers marks Rome’s limits. At its peak in the second century A.D., the empire sent soldiers to patrol a front that ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...

What would Rome and the Roman Empire have been like without their ... which had about 1,000,000 people at its peak, without its large aqueducts. The Romans could have obtained their water from ...

Stretching from the windswept Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland down to North Africa, and from Portugal to the Middle East, the Roman Empire was vast. And to keep its new borders intact ...

By some estimates, the Roman empire amounted to more than 80 million people at its peak, meaning about a quarter of the world’s population could have been exposed to the lead pollution generated ...

At the height of its reign the Roman Empire held territory spanning from the Atlantic to the Tigris. The empire was a formidable political force that dominated the peoples of three separate ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...