All men everywhere were stunned Tuesday, as news emerged that their biggest obsession — The Roman Empire — received a major historical update.
A 13-year-long study conducted in Italy is changing the way we think about the collapse of the Roman Empire. A Cambridge-led team of archaeologists recently uncovered evidence in Interamna Lirenas that suggests regular people carried on thriving throughout the region well after what’s considered Rome’s major decline period, Cambridge wrote in a statement regarding the study.
Interamna Lirenas was “traditionally written off as a failed backwater in Central Italy,” the statement noted. But pottery analysis from the site suggests the region’s people didn’t fall into Rome’s steady decline until some 300 years after Big Archaeology initially assumed.
Further geological and geophysical analysis of the region revealed a highly…
