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 ...

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' ...

There was no lack of German ingenuity when the earliest European settlers of Lancaster County arrived around 1710. The architectural traditions of design, function and construction that served them ...

History portrays them as the bitterest of enemies, but a discovery near a village in western Slovakia almost 60 years ago shows that there wasn't always a violent antipathy between the Romans and ...

Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration across Europe created an elaborate genetic puzzle that researchers have now started to unravel with a leap in DNA analysis. An enhanced look ...

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 ...

What are the easiest Germanic languages to learn for English speakers? Not every language is equally easy or equally hard to learn. How fast will a person acquire a new language definitely depends on ...

Archaeologists working in a sprawling wetland in Denmark uncovered 2,000-year-old human remains that challenge traditional ideas about "barbarian" warfare in northern Europe. The research, published ...

The Roman-Germanic battle that became 'fake news' It was a surprising upset when Germanic tribes fought the Romans and won in 9 AD. The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest has spurned numerous myths - and ...

When a strong Germanic signal was discovered in the Y-chromosome of British men, geneticists at University College London suggested that enslavement and apartheid imposed by Saxon invaders was ...