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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the 1,700-year-old burial of a "barbarian" who lived on the edge of the Roman Empire and was given valuable grave goods, including glassware, pottery and ...

They divided the Roman Empire between them ... in what Virgil would later depict as an epic struggle of eastern barbarians against western civilization. The Egyptians were completely outgunned ...

Towards the end of the Roman empire, Brittania was under almost continual attack. During the fourth and fifth centuries the Irish landed all along the western coastline of Cornwall, Wales and ...

Along with the later writings of Dio Cassius, the work of Tacitus and Suetonius still form the basis of our understanding of the Roman Empire in the first century AD.