New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...
As its subtitle suggests, “Embers of the Hands” is not a history of early medieval Europe writ large ... although they lived so long ago, the Vikings were people. In the chapter on “Love ...
Among the pieces are two combs made of bone or deer antler, one of which has a geometric decoration that evokes parallels ...
Discover 2,000 years of history amid the picturesque streets of York. A Roman fortress, then a Viking stronghold, followed by a Medieval wool-trading center, then an Industrial railway hub ...
Vikings had indeed reached the coast of America five centuries before Columbus. Now those medieval sagas look ready ... will shed more light on the early history of European exploration of North ...
It turned out to be a silver penny minted during the reign of Guthrum who was a ninth-century Viking ruler of eastern England ...
The sequences below from the NOVA film "The Vikings" offer a fascinating and unprecedented look at Birka, a medieval Viking village that archeologists recently excavated near modern-day Stockholm.
Viking hoard and medieval signet rings are among a record ... and provided exceptional insight into an aspect of national or regional history, archaeology or culture' under certain criteria.