B eing a Viking wasn’t all raiding and marauding. According to new research, a large part of the ancient Norse lifestyle also involved being struck down by oral and maxillofacial diseases, many of ...

The Battle of Svolder was a naval battle fought around the year 1000 between Olaf Tryggvason, the king of Norway, and a ...

Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written ...

The Viking Age saw the pillaging of the British Isles, France, and the Mediterranean until inequality, Christianity, and sex ended the era.

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

History remembers warriors for their conquests and kings for their reigns. But this one Viking left behind something more ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

Thule is less known than other places in classical mythology like Atlantis. But Thule actually existed. The prickly question is, where was it?

Kellen Moore is only 36 years old, but he has already had quite a football journey. It started at Boise State where he went ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

Compare your DNA to more than 150 ancient civilizations and numerous samples from archaeological excavations MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history and DNA testing, announced ...

I've found the show Vikings to be the most accurate portrayal of Christianity on the History channel since the airing of the 2013 miniseries titled The Bible. Sadly, the History channel hasn't always ...