The Romans considered them barbarians, the Nazis saw them as heroic warriors: An archaeological exhibition in Berlin puts legends and myths about Germanic tribes straight. The first thing visitors to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

THE CREMATED remains of ancient Germanic warriors have been found at a burial site in Poland. Female skeletons, spearheads, daggers and ancient jewellery were also discovered at the 2,000-year-old ...

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 ...

So how did the German tribes like the Visigoths and etc defeat the Romans? They don't appear to have superior technology which would explain it otherwise. And in my imagination, the only thing that ...