Skip to content viewer section. The Saxons were the latest of all the German tribes to enter the orbit of medieval civilization. They were neither Christian nor civilized before 800. But in spite of ...

Petrified wood is one of the most sought-after materials in the world for both its aesthetic value and its scientific value. But in Indonesia, miners who risk their lives to dig it up barely make ...

“The German people are really an ancient nation which goes back thousand of years,” he said in Saturday’s address. “I even read Julius Caesar was very impressed [by] the German tribes,” he said, ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Northern Brittania was facing incursions by the Picts from north east Scotland, while from across the North Sea came the Germanic tribes - the Angles, Saxons and the Jutes. These events set off a ...