In 92 C.E, for instance, records indicate that Germanic troops invaded the Roman Empire near the Danube border and wiped out an entire legion, according to the museum’s statement. So far ...

Germanic barbarians invaded the Western Roman Empire to the south towards the end of the fifth century, causing its downfall. open image in gallery Archaeologists say it is rare to find graves ...

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 ...

"Part fell to invaders, and part disintegrated ... Odoacer had been a Roman general of Germanic descent who professed loyalty to the Eastern Roman emperor, and he took Romulus captive at Ravenna ...

archeologists have long known that Greek and Roman cultures widely used narcotics such as opium, but until now, many experts believed drug use in Germanic peoples almost exclusively extended only ...

The site of the mass grave is only a few miles from Vindobona, now in central Vienna, which was a major Roman military fort until the Germanic invasions in the fifth century. Archaeologists said ...

The remains of about 150 Roman soldiers have been discovered beneath a soccer field in the Austrian capital of Vienna, indicating a fierce battle against Germanic warriors happened there in the ...