Conan - 1st appearance in print: Weird Tales -a pulp magazine-(December, 1932) 1st Comic Book Appearance, Conan the Barbarian #1 (October 1970), a Marvel Comic book. The character of Conan began in ...

Ancient Greek historian Thucydides has defined the identities of Greeks and  "barbarians" based on colonial influence.

The other night on the History Channel, the amethyst sunsets and lilac jazz of a Cialis commercial gave way to an advertisement for one of the network’s own potency-restoring products. A hirsute ...

History may be written by the victors, but that doesn’t mean the stories of the vanquished aren’t worth telling. That’s the idea behind History’s new four-part series about the rise and fall of the ...

Alex Bogdan and Ioana Iacob in “I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians.” Photos courtesy of Big World Pictures In October 1941, the Romanian military collaborated with the Nazis to ...

Created by sword-and-sorcery pioneer Robert E. Howard, Conan was originally a product of the pulps. Howard sold 18 novellas and novelettes featuring Conan to the magazines Weird Tales and Fantasy Fan ...

Can’t they all get along? Not by a long shot. Now some of history’s toughest characters are mixing it up on the History Channel for ‘‘Barbarians Week,’’ a return to the dark forces of tribal expansion ...