In the days of ancient Rome, it was never a good idea to send amateurs to pacify the Germanic tribes. The Emperor Augustus found this out in A.D. 9, when his handpicked crony, Varus, blundered into a ...

Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration across Europe created an elaborate genetic puzzle that ...

Countries and societies that were ethnically homogeneous, such as ancient Germanic tribes or modern Japan, felt that they were inherently more stable and secure than the alternative, whether late ...

Far outside the walls of the Colosseum in Rome, clans prepared to battle the Romans in Europe by taking hits from an attachment on their belts, researchers say. Yoal Desurmont via Unsplash In the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,700-year-old grave of a "barbarian" near the former frontier of the Roman Empire in modern-day Germany. The grave was recently found in the village of Gerstetten, 65 ...