In 9 AD, Arminius led a Germanic ambush, destroying 3 Roman legions in Teutoburg Forest. Warning: this episode contains accounts of violence that some listeners may find disturbing.

However it soon became tolerated. The earliest Christian object found in Wales is a vessel with the ancient Christian symbol ...

Towards the end of the Roman empire, Brittania was under almost continual attack. During the fourth and fifth centuries the ...

The Roman Empire is divided into two parts ... the third and fourth centuries A.D. A healthy Roman respect for Germanic tribes dates back at least to the time of Julius Caesar, who admired ...

Alliances of Germanic tribes famously fought back against the Roman Empire as it attempted to expand its borders around the beginning of the millennium. The earliest information on Germanic peoples ...

The Roman empire began in 27 B.C.E. when Augustus ... For centuries, Rome had been dealing with Germanic tribes, but by the ...

Courtesy Gabriele Rasbach, DAI) The oft-told tale of the Roman Empire’s expansion is one ... warlike, ferocious tribes to the north. The conventional wisdom goes that after a decades-long ...

Head down, pipe in hand, Hüssen—a researcher with the German Archaeological Institute ... years ago this was the line that divided the Roman Empire from the rest of the world.

In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies ... As long as the tribes were divided, the Roman army was the strongest force in Britain. And while they were ...

The plan worked and before long the Scottish tribes were seeking peace with the Romans. An engraving showing a battle between soldiers of the Roman Empire and German tribes. The Scottish tribes ...