In the late 1700s, Juan Vegazo, a farmer and amateur historian in Ubrique, in the southern Spanish province of Cadiz, had a grand theory: buried within the rock and dirt of a nearby hill lay the ...
The Goths, a group of Germanic tribes, were famed for being fierce adversaries of the Roman Empire. Detailed accounts of their “barbaric” conquests — and their infamous sacking of Rome in 410 A.D. — ...
LONDON — British archaeologists have uncovered an ancient coffin in a 1,600-year-old cemetery in northern England — a discovery, they said, that could shed light on the end of Roman Britain and the ...
In “Theoderic the Great,” the historian Hans-Ulrich Wiemer dissects the rule of the Goth king who nurtured Roman culture and impressed Machiavelli. By Jamie Kreiner When you purchase an independently ...