In the grand cities of ancient Rome, aqueducts delivered life-giving water to fountains, baths, and homes. The concrete Romans invented allowed them to build these vast networks. But those systems ...
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How the fall of Rome in 476 AD was almost reversed
The year 476 AD is usually remembered as the moment when the Western Roman Empire finally collapsed. But what if the story almost turned out differently? After the deposition of the young emperor ...
The canonical date of the fall of the Western Roman Empire is 476, when the general Odoacer deposed the last emperor, Romulus Augustulus – a child who had been on the throne for less than a year. I ...
In 1847 a few poor labourers living near Kottayam, a city in what is now the Indian state of Kerala, stumbled upon a hoard of gold coins. They exchanged these for a day’s worth of rice or a few rupees ...
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