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 ...

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 ...

Through carbon dating research, an incredible find has been uncovered in Transylvania, Romania. Nothing less than a medieval fortress has conclusively been proven to be built by the Knightly Order of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about cinema and TV series in Europe. Set in 9 A.D. Germany, Barbarians is a dramatization of the events that led to the ...

Archaeologists have launched a new drive to explore an ancient Germanic-Roman battlefield. Nationalists spun the carnage into a myth about Germany's birth - fake news that has persisted to this day.

The vandals were one of more than a dozen Germanic barbarian tribes who lived alongside the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century. Occasionally the tribesmen crossed the border – marked by the great ...

The migration of the Germanic tribes reshaped Europe, but what drove them to leave their homelands and move south and west? This video explores the mix of climate shifts, population pressures, Roman ...