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 ...

The authors conclude that the spoon-like fittings may have served as dispensers of stimulants for Germanic warriors going into battle. In antiquity, the term "barbarian" referred to non-Roman ...

“The aim of this book is to rehabilitate the reputation of the Vandals, a Germanic warrior people who conquered fabulously rich Roman North Africa in the 5th century AD.” (p. vii). So begins this ...