The Senate continued to meet in Rome just as it had for nearly a millennium. Latin remained the language of administration.

Tiny spoon-shaped implements carried by Roman era Germanic warriors may be evidence they used stimulants on the field of war. According to a new analysis of the mysterious artifacts and their context, ...

Barbarian warriors likely snorted stimulants during battle in Roman times, according to a new study that sheds more light on the fighting practices of the Germanic community. Archaeologists now ...

Defining the limits of empire is not only a 21st-century concern. In The Battle That Stopped Rome (W.W. Norton), Peter S. Wells, a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, ...

Rome Total War's sequel Barbarian invasion sets you, the player, in control of either an ailing Western Roman Empire or a "defendable Eastern Empore of one of the invading barbarian "horde" factions.

Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion commences just after the last Emperor of a unified Rome has died. His successors in Rome and Constantinople are now uneasy allies and rivals for power. The ...

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. This ...