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 ...

ICE agents arrested a Honduran man at his church in Georgia. As Augustine chronicled after the sack of Rome, even the ...

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

Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. Clark, G. 2016. “Augustine and the Merciful Barbarians.” In Romans, Bar­barians, and the Transformation of the Roman World, edited by R.W. Mathisen and D. Shanzer, ...

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

At the beginning of the 5th century, the Roman Empire was starting to fall apart. It was constantly under attack from tribes from northern Europe. The Romans called these people 'barbarians ...

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 ...