Even though it’s been 2500 years since the Vikings roamed Scandinavia (and the world), they still fascinate us. So what was life really like for them? These historical facts about their hygiene and ...

Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch ...

Discover the real historical figures behind five of Shakespeare's most famous characters, from Hamlet to Cleopatra.

Other favourite monsters of modernity were similarly re-created: the most familiar element of the werewolf myth, the fatal silver bullet, was devised in 1941 for the Hollywood movie The Wolf Man, and ...

An archaeologist believes he's determined the location of where Ivarr the Boneless is buried, along with the warrior’s ship.

Once upon a time, there was a Viking king. He prayed to Thor, Odin and Freya and ruled over a land that did not yet have an ...

A windswept mound on England’s Cumbrian coast may conceal one of the most sought-after Viking burials in Britain: the grave of Ivarr “the Boneless”, a feared 9th-century war leader linked to the Great ...

The largest of four fifteenth-century tapestries, known collectively as the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, takes falconry as its subject. Lovers are depicted strolling arm-in-arm as their birds hunt ...

Using stool samples from Viking latrines, researchers have genetically mapped one of the oldest human parasites -- the whipworm. The mapping reflects the parasite's global spread and its interaction ...

A richly furnished grave excavated in 1878 near the Viking town of Birka in eastern Sweden had long been assumed to hold a powerful male warrior. The grave was equipped with an arsenal of weapons, as ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...