The 1,700 year old hoard of Roman gold coins was found in Luxembourg and is being hailed as one of the most significant ...

Learn why the use of a tiny spoon likely suggests that Germanic communities used psychotropic drugs for battle.

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Barbarian warriors likely snorted stimulants during battle in Roman times, according to a new study that sheds more light on the fighting practices of the Germanic community. Researchers have ...

Tom and Dominic reveal one of the greatest stories in all of history: the rise the Franks. Europe’s mightiest warriors, warlords and kings, whose legacy reshaped the world.

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 ...

the emperor Trajan mustered tens of thousands of Roman troops, crossed the Danube River on two of the longest bridges the ancient world had ever seen, defeated a mighty barbarian empire on its ...

The use of narcotics like opium is well documented in ancient Greece and Rome, but barbarians living outside the Roman Empire were assumed to have generally not used stimulants drugs apart from ...