When Germanic warriors charged into battle during the Roman era, they may have done so under the influence of carefully dosed stimulants. A new study unearths intriguing evidence of potential drug use ...

In a quiet neighborhood of Vienna, beneath a football field slated for renovation, the dead began to speak. Construction workers digging up a patch of turf in Simmering, a district in Austria’s ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Everybody may know the name “Attila the Hun,” but nobody knows where he’s buried. Finding him would be ...

Following the left bank of the Lower Rhine River for approximately 400 km from the Rhenish Massif in Germany to the North Sea coast in the Netherlands, the transnational property consist of 102 ...