By the time the germanic tribes found out that using large but slow horses was ok because you could use heavy armor not only on the cavalryman but also the horse and simply mow down all opposition, ...

In 9 AD, Rome suffered one of the greatest military disasters in its history when three legions were annihilated in the dense ...

How would you prepare for battle? If you were a Germanic warrior from Northern Europe during the Roman period, you may have sniffed some narcotics. A team of three Polish researchers, including ...

From the Rhine to North Africa, the Vandals rose from scattered Germanic tribes to become the most formidable naval power of the fifth century, commanding an empire that Rome itself could not ...

VIENNA — As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

An intern working for the Westphalie Department for the Preservation and Care of Field Monuments in Germany shocked his employers when he uncovered a rare Roman dagger at an archaeological site.

A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the first-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors in a battle involving Germanic tribes, has been unearthed in Austria's ...