Frédéric Wilner
Director
Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorably weaken until it disappeared? Archaeologists, specialists in ancient pathologies and climate historians are now accumulating clues converging on the same factors: a powerful cooling and pandemics. A disease, whose symptoms described by the Greek physician Galen are reminiscent of those of smallpox, struck Rome in 167, soon devastating its army. At the same time, a sudden climatic disorder that was underway as far as Eurasia caused agricultural yields to plummet and led to the westward migration of the Huns. Plagued by economic and military difficulties, attacked from all sides by barbarian tribes, the Roman edifice gradually cracked.
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Frédéric Wilner
Director
VĂ©ronique Boudon-Millot
Self - Medizinhistorikerin, CNRS
Michael McCormick
Self - Professeur d'Histoire Médiévale, Harvard University
Paul Raynaud
Self - Archäologe, CNRS, Universität von Montpellier
Dominique Castex
Self - Archéo-anthropologue, CNRS
GĂ©raldine Sachau-Carcel
Self - Archäoanthropologin
Vincent Drost
Self - Abteilung Numismatik, BnF, Paris
Igor Sljusarenko
Self - Archéologue, Université de Novossibirsk
Elena Korotkikh
Self - Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
Benoît Ode
Self - Archäologe, Universität von Montpellier
Johannes Krause
Self - Archéo-Généticien, Institut Max Planck
Nicolas Waldmann
Self - Géologue, Université de Haïfa
Benoît Rossignol
Self - Privatdozent für Römische Geschichte, Sorbonne
Philippe Blanchard
Self - Archéologue, INRAP
GĂ©raldine Sachau-Carcel
Self - Archéologue
VĂ©ronique Boudon-Millot
Self - Directrice du recherche au CNRS
Ulf BĂĽntgen
Self - Dendrochronologue, Université de Cambridge
Ulf BĂĽntgen
Self - Professor fĂĽr Dendrowissenschaften
Igor Sljusarenko
Self - Archäologe, Novosibirsk State University
Michael McCormick
Self - Professor fĂĽr mittelalterliche Geschichte, Harvard
