Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,700-year-old grave of a "barbarian" near the former frontier of the Roman Empire in modern-day Germany. The grave was recently found in the village of Gerstetten ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Archeologists have recovered over 200 small, spoonlike objects next to warfare-related artifacts at Roman ... tribes at the time. The list, while not exhaustive, is large enough to give Germanic ...

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 ...

Kokowski and colleagues investigated which drugs were available to Germanic tribes in Roman times, identifying poppy, hops, hemp, henbane, belladonna and several fungi. But they concluded that the ...