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 ...

Settlement discovered almost 60 years ago shows how Imperial soldiers built manor for local tribes' nobleman. History portrays them as the bitterest of enemies, but a discovery near a village in ...

So how did the German tribes like the Visigoths and etc defeat the Romans? They don't appear to have superior technology which would explain it otherwise. And in my imagination, the only thing that ...

It was a long way away from the comforts of Rome, a lonely outpost in a cold, gray land. Standing in the watchtower, the Roman soldiers looked out across the hills, keeping an eye out for signs of ...

The restored horse head is on view for the first time since its discovery in 2009 Courtesy of Hessian Ministry of Science and Art Some 2,000 years ago, a monumental bronze sculpture of the Roman ...

I just finished reading the latest issue of Les Aigles de Rome (The Eagles of Rome) a comic by the splendid Swiss artist Enrico Marini that tells the story of Arminius. Ring a bell? He was the German ...

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 ...

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.

Archaeologists in Bavaria have uncovered the foundation of what appears to be a monumental Roman burial mound - a discovery that has astonished experts and shed new light on the Roman presence in ...