Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's northern frontier rebelled and three different "barbarian" groups ...

Researchers have made a startling discovery that the barbarian warriors who brought down the Roman Empire may have been under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs during their epic conquests.

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study in Climatic Change reveals. Researchers ...

A study led by the University of Cambridge has revealed that a series of extreme droughts between the years 364 and 366 AD may have been a determining factor in the so-called Great Barbarian ...

In her Preface, the author writes: “I set about the task of finding out what the world was like when rude barbarians and Roman citizens were struggling to mesh their cultures and their lives. My naive ...

A severe three-year drought helped bring about a "barbarian" invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, a new study finds. In that year, Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's ...