In the days of ancient Rome, it was never a good idea to send amateurs to pacify the Germanic tribes. The Emperor Augustus found this out in A.D. 9, when his handpicked crony, Varus, blundered into a ...

How would you prepare for battle? If you were a Germanic warrior from Northern Europe during the Roman period, you may have sniffed some narcotics. A team of three Polish researchers, including ...

Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration across Europe created an elaborate genetic puzzle that ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. This week we’ll be taking a quick look at just how English became English ...

Archaeologists working in a sprawling wetland in Denmark uncovered 2,000-year-old human remains that challenge traditional ideas about "barbarian" warfare in northern Europe. The research, published ...

Following on the success of supernatural drama “Dark,” Netflix is set to produce five new German originals, including an ambitious historical series that chronicles a bloody and decisive battle ...

The Saxons were a people from modern-day north Germany, Denmark and northern Holland. They were a warlike and harsh folk and, like many of the German tribes, under pressure from the influx of eastern ...

Genetic analysis of these excavated remains showed that unclear family linkages because some of the young warriors had widespread origins. Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im RP Stuttgart In 1962, the ...

Hans-Peter Hasenfratz, trans. from the German by Michael Moynihan. Inner Traditions, $16.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 9781594774218 First published in Germany in 1992, this study by Hasenfratz ...

Following on the success of supernatural drama “Dark,” Netflix is set to produce five new German originals, including an ambitious historical series that chronicles a bloody and decisive battle ...