Tiny spoon-shaped implements carried by Roman era Germanic warriors may be evidence they used stimulants on the field of war.

Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion is the expansion to the best-selling Rome: Total War. The original game covered the rise of the Roman Empire and the struggle to be the Emperor of the Roman World.

Archaeologists now suspect that these objects were worn at the end of a warrior’s belt in northern Europe and used to carry and dispense stimulants during battle. The use of narcotics like opium is ...

Archaeologists say barbarian warriors may have used 'stimulants ... It turned out that all of them were found together with elements of war equipment.' Combined with the fact that the spoons ...

“barbarian” warriors across central Europe may have battled the Roman Empire with a little help from stimulants. Researchers at Poland’s Maria Curie-Sklodowska University laid out their ...

The use of narcotics like opium is well documented in ancient Greece and Rome, but barbarians living outside the Roman Empire were assumed ... with elements of war equipment,” researchers ...

However, this body of evidence is missing for the barbarian peoples living outside the Roman Empire, and it is generally assumed that they made little use of drugs apart from alcohol. Now ...

However, this body of evidence is missing for the barbarian peoples living outside the Roman Empire, and it is generally assumed that they made little use of drugs apart from alcohol. The ...

Known to trigger intense rage, the seeds were ritualistically consumed within the Roman Empire ... Barbarian warriors overcome their fear and increase their energy levels when heading off to war.

The Roman Empire is divided into two parts: the Eastern Empire, governed by his son Arcadius, and the Western Empire, by his son Honorius. Barbarian peoples—Swabians, Vandals, Alans, Visigoths ...

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the 1,700-year-old burial of a "barbarian" who lived on the edge of the Roman Empire and was given valuable grave goods, including glassware, pottery and ...

Researchers in Poland have hypothesized that warriors used spoon-like artifacts to administer drugs during Roman-period wartime.