The intricate motif, at first glance a tangle of curving lines, conceals two animal figures in profile facing each other along the upper and lower edges. Kristoffersen noted that "it is possible that ...

A routine first-grade field trip turned into the discovery of a lifetime when a six-year-old boy happened upon an exceptionally well-preserved sword dating back roughly 1,300 years. Found in the ...

The Château de Villarceaux, in the Val-d'Oise department, invites you to step back into the Middle Ages and the Second Empire ...

A morning stroll in the Austrått district of Sandnes took an unexpected turn when ...

Volcanic eruptions, climate change, crop failures, famine and plague all may have swept through Norway in the sixth century C ...

Before Alfred the Great, there was Æthelwulf—the Noble Wolf who held Wessex together with sword and strategy. His reign was ...

Shipwreck's pollen secrets: Researchers decoded a Roman vessel’s travels and repairs by analyzing pollen trapped in its resin-based waterproof coatings. Viking treasures unearthed: Silver bracelets in ...

Two rare coins minted in England to ward against Viking raids have been discovered in Denmark, where Vikings made them into ...

There's far more to Yorkshire hillwalking than the cliches of Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen-y-Ghent. Norman Hadley ventures ...