The 129 bodies, which were likely a mix of Roman soldiers and Germanic tribesmen, were found in total. Dislocated bones were also found at the site, meaning that as many as 150 victims' remains ...

These years marked the dramatic rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the dawn of the Vikings, and the migration of several ...

The list, while not exhaustive, is large enough to give Germanic warriors plenty of options—belladonna, multiple fungi varieties, poppy, hops, hemp, and henbane, among others. While some of ...

Is it the immediate associations with Germanic, Nordic and generally forest-strewn areas? Is it the (usually) gratuitous nature of them? Technically speaking, the word umlaut only refers to the ...

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 ...

Around this time, under Emperor Domitian, the Roman Empire was locked in vicious clashes along its northern frontier—the Danube River—against the Germanic tribes. “Our preliminary ...

The Romans called Germanic tribal people “barbarians”, literally meaning “people who speak differently”, a term they also used for non-Roman people living outside the empire’s territories.

A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the first-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors in a battle involving Germanic tribes, has been unearthed in Austria ...

1. The word "umlaut" comes from one of the Brothers Grimm. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our ...

We couldn’t figure out why the f**k they were doing that.” Crüe, Blue Öyster Cult, Motörhead: For rock musicians, the umlaut has become a strange signature, one that seems to exist for no ...