In 9 AD, the rebel chieftain Arminius and his confederation of Germanic tribes ambushed three Roman legions in the Teutoburg Forest. For days the Romans were relentlessly stalked through the woods ...

Credit: Pavel Cuzuioc Historical accounts report multiple battles between Roman forces and Germanic tribes on the Danube border during the reign of Emperor Domitian (81-96 CE). These led his ...

This has led many scholars to conclude that Germanic tribes—sometimes referred to by the antiquated term barbarians (the Ancient Greek and Roman name for all foreigners)—did not use stimulants ...

The settlement was established in the 2nd century, shortly before the Romans began their campaigns against the Germanic tribes. It was located only a few dozen kilometres from the limes - the borders ...

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 ...

By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost ...

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