Knowing my fondness for what Hollywood calls “sword’n’sandal” epics, and also my penchant for pointing up the advantages of civilization by comparing it to the opposite thing, Santa left for me under ...

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.

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 ...

During the Migration Age (ca. 300-700 A.D.), "barbarian" groups like the Goths and Vandals roved around Europe, nibbling away at the declining Roman Empire and settling down as they went along. One ...

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 ...

HISTORY has been unkind to the Barbarians. Some 1,600 years have passed since they began to redraw the boundaries of Europe, yet their names are best remembered for the anti-social and savage ...

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 ...

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) ...