coins and ceramic materials recovered there date back to the second and third centuries C.E., long after the Roman soldiers abandoned the nearby Anreppen camp. Clearly, the settlers in the area ...

He conquered Dacia (now part of Romania), which provided land for Roman settlers and rich pickings from gold and salt mines. He then attacked the Parthians, Rome’s old enemy in the East ...

Recent archaeological excavations in Delbrück-Bentfeld, in the Paderborn district of northwestern Germany revealed Roman-era farmsteads. Initially thought to be an isolated farmstead discovered ...

Pompeii's history reads like a Greek tragedy. Settlers originally flocked to the site of the Roman port city because of its fertile soil—the product of volcanic ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius.

It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD 410. The Roman armies withdrew from Britain ...