To hear the Romans tell it, the arrival of Huns at the empire's border was an unmitigated catastrophe. “The Huns in multitude break forth with might and wrath … spreading dismay and loss,” read a poem ...

Attila the Hun was sacking Milan with his hordes in the fifth century when a painting caught his eye. It showed Huns lying dead at the feet of a Roman emperor. Attila, ever the problem solver, ordered ...

Hughes, who has specialized in the history of the Late Empire, in works such as Aetius and Gaiseric, gives us a new, and insightful look at their far better known contemporary, Attila (fl. c. 400-453) ...

The barbarians are coming! And they've brought their families with them. Migrating hordes from the Huns to the Goths are central to Creative Assembly's Total War: Attila, marching across Europe in ...

Though I've enjoyed some of History's reality TV shows over the years, I do miss those specials and docuseries explaining real historical periods and events that form the foundation of the network.

Nothing lasts forever. Case in point, the thousand-year prosperity enjoyed by the Romans. In the fourth century AD, the Roman Empire found itself set upon by a wide variety of barbarians from the ...

My kid was asking me for a ride to a friend’s house. But I was busy trying to save the Western Roman Empire from eternal darkness. I was doing my duty for Rome, but it was kind of a no-win situation.

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