Archaeologists have unearthed the grave of a “barbarian” who died on the frontier of the Roman Empire in the fourth century ...

Goths and other Germanic tribes began attacking Roman borders. To help repel these attacks, Rome began forming complex alliances and counter-alliances with the barbarians. More and more ...

In antiquity, the term "barbarian" referred to non-Roman peoples, often from tribes or cultures outside the territory Rome controlled, such as Germanic, Celtic and Hunnic groups. Compounds with ...

They came from the tribes that raided and eventually toppled the mighty Roman empire. The Western Roman Empire fell in 478 following centuries of civil wars, increased corruption and barbarian ...

Northern Brittania was facing incursions by the Picts from north east Scotland, while from across the North Sea came the Germanic tribes - the Angles, Saxons and the Jutes. These events set off a ...