Researchers have made the astonishing claim that the fierce warriors who brought down the Roman Empire were under the ...

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

Barbarian peoples—Swabians, Vandals, Alans, Visigoths, Franks, and Burgundians—cross the border into the Western Roman Empire to settle. At times they put themselves at the service of Rome.

Originally published in 1983, Barbarians and Romans is a very readable survey of the complex period that saw the “Fall of Rome,” an era known in German as the Volkerwanderung (“migration of the ...

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 ...