Here are 40 maps that explain the Roman Empire — its rise and fall, ... Western Europe was populated by largely the same ethnic groups in 526 as they had been a century earlier.

The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document, which is almost seven metres long, shows the network of main Roman ...

Throughout the thousand-year reign of the Roman Empire, disparate populations began to connect in new ways—through trade routes, economic and political collaboration, and joint military endeavors.

The team focused on three periods—the height of the empire from A.D. 1 to A.D. 250, the late imperial period, from A.D. 250 to A.D. 550, and following the collapse of the Western Roman empire ...