Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the 1,700-year-old burial of a "barbarian" who lived on the edge of the Roman Empire and was given valuable grave goods, including glassware, pottery and ...

A severe three-year drought helped bring about a "barbarian" invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, a new study finds. In that year, Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's ...

In 476, the Germanic barbarian king Odoacer deposed the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire in Italy. The Eastern Roman, or Byzantine Empire, survived for a few centuries longer, but never ...