Barbarian warriors in ancient Roman times may have used stimulants to aid their performance in battle, a study has proposed. The practice is suggested by small, spoon-like objects fitted to ...

Crews starting work on a gas line in Bulgaria uncovered a late Roman-era settlement. The timing of abandonment implies that the settlement’s residents were driven out by a barbarian raid ...

We asked Aicher, author of "Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome," about the ... about the enemy getting to them. When Rome was besieged by the Barbarian invasions, one of the first things ...

The Roman Empire is divided into two parts: the Eastern Empire, governed by his son Arcadius, and the Western Empire, by his son Honorius. Barbarian peoples—Swabians, Vandals, Alans, Visigoths ...

In ancient Rome, some men who did not fit neatly within ... In a fable by Phaedrus, also written in the first century A.D., a barbarian is threatening the troops of the military leader, Pompey ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over ... adding that the traces of color were often attributed to "barbarians." The white marble of "Laocoön and ...