“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 ...

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 ... the team's ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was German, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans? (Image: Imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire) Credit:Flickr / mitko_denev ...

"Gladiator II" opens with a Roman fleet brutally laying siege to a city in the north African kingdom of Numidia. On the big ...

Barbarian warriors likely snorted stimulants ... but barbarians living outside the Roman Empire were assumed to have generally not used stimulants drugs apart from alcohol. In the latest study ...

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

The Temple of Saturn from ancient Rome. The rise and fall of the Roman Empire shifted the population in the Balkans. Credit: Marcok / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 A recent study, published in the ...