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 ...

A team of archaeologists under the direction of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association (LWL) has found evidence of human occupation in Delbrück-Bentfeld, in the German district of Paderborn, ...

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 ...

In 9 AD, Arminius led a Germanic ambush, destroying 3 Roman legions in Teutoburg Forest. Show more Warning: this episode contains accounts of violence that some listeners may find disturbing. In 9 AD, ...

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome battled Germanic people nearly 2,000 years ago. By Eve Sampson Under a soccer ...

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 ...

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 ...

The remains of about 150 Roman soldiers have been discovered beneath a soccer field in the Austrian capital of Vienna, indicating a fierce battle against Germanic warriors happened there in the first ...

9 B.C.: Pagan Germanic tribes check advancing Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, ending northward spread of Roman civilization, bounding the Roman Empire by the Danube and Rhine. c.700 A.D.

In the opening scenes of “Gladiator,” general Maximus Decimus Meridius, played by Russell Crowe, prepares the Roman troops to take on the clans of central Europe. Arrows are pulled out of quivers, ...

Born c. 19 BC Died c. 19 AD Enemy of Rome: War chief of the Cherusci,who led Germanic resistance to the Roman advance beyond the Elbe. Destroyed Varus and three roman legions in an ambush at the ...