Barbarian warriors who toppled the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, according to researchers. The shocking conclusion has come from Polish ...

Barbarian warriors who topped the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, according to researchers ...

Barbarian warriors who toppled the mighty Roman Empire may have been high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, according to researchers ...

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 ...

Many historians consider the fall of the Western Roman Empire to have been when the emperor Romulus Augustulus abdicated, but not all historians agree. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The Western Roman Empire had clearly fallen by the 560s. Italy was controlled by Justinian, many of its cities were ruined and much of its infrastructure was severely damaged.

Then, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, one of the coldest periods in the past 2000 years heralded a wave of pandemics starting with the Plague of Justinian in the 540s.