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 ...

When people think about German history they usually only think only as far back as about 1914, but now a new movie from 20th Century Fox is taking you much further back - namely to the first century.

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 ...

Far outside the walls of the Colosseum in Rome, clans prepared to battle the Romans in Europe by taking hits from an attachment on their belts, researchers say. Yoal Desurmont via Unsplash In the ...

Follow the complex story of migrations in Europe during the first millennium, as Germanic and Viking ancestry spread across the continent. Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration ...

You say Groundhog Day, I say Grundsaudaag: how German and Swiss settlers in Pennsylvania created a new language – and a much-loved American holiday. So what exactly is Pennsylvania Dutch? And how is ...