“Woe to the vanquished!” the old saying goes, and it was often showcased in history. During the devastating Gothic War that raged between 535 and 554 AD on the Italian Peninsula, the venerable city of ...

Until now, ancient Baltic tribes have been incorrectly branded as being ignorant and dumb. However, the recent discovery of hundreds of Baltic amber elite graves on the Russian Sambia Peninsula, full ...

Prior to the year 476, when Romulus Augustus was removed as Imperator Caesar Divi Filius (the official title for what today we would commonly call "emperor") of the Western Roman Empire by the German ...

This malted irony suddenly appeared in Der Tag, potent Berlin newspaper owned by Herr Alfred Hugenberg, the late Hugo Stinnes’ publicist: “The envious glance of the Yankee turns to rich and ...

The Battle of Teutoburg forest is a story of betrayal, of one man’s vehement desire to liberate his people from Roman rule and the brutal, bloody lengths he would go to achieve it. Tristan Hughes ...

The Cincinnati Barbarians, the fighting knights famous for their Ohio Renaissance Fair appearances, have moved their headquarters to Centerville, with plans to expand. The Barbarians, who each summer ...

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. Archaeologists now ...

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 warriors' ...