Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons ...

The tradition of decorating Easter eggs is part of the culture of the Slavic-speaking Sorbian ethnic minority in Germany.

Barbarian warriors who toppled the mighty Roman Empire may have been high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great ...

Barbarian warriors who topped the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, according to researchers ...

The 150 men most likely died during an unknown battle between Germanic tribes and Romans. (AP Video by Philipp Jenne) People work on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st ...

They came from the tribes that raided and eventually toppled the mighty Roman empire. The Western Roman Empire fell in 478 following centuries of civil wars, increased corruption and barbarian ...

Barbarian hordes invaded and sacked the Western Roman empire while under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs when taking on their enemy, researchers in have suggested ...

between the eastern nomads and the northern barbarians there was no racial kinship. What the two invaders had in common was an almost equal innocence of civilization and a yearning for the same booty.

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor ...

The root causes were, in fact, military and economic. Germanic tribes to the north of the Empire’s Rhine–Danube frontier had been prodding away at the Empire for hundreds of years but had, on the ...

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