Genome study reveals secrets of the fall of the Roman Empire

The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD was a pivotal moment in human history, when Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed teenage emperor Romulus Augustulus in Italy and set in motion the collapse ...
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DNA study challenges Roman Empire fall narrative

The fall of the Western Roman Empire is commonly explained in world history textbooks alongside the Great Migration of the Germanic tribes. However, analysis of ancient DNA revealed that Northern ...
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The Barbarians Who Didn’t Invade Rome: Groups from Northern Europe Were Already Plowing the Lands of Southern Germany a Century Before the Fall of the Empire

A genomic analysis conducted on 258 individuals buried in the so-called row cemeteries of southern Germany has just demolished the 19th-century image of a great Germanic migration that supposedly ...