Æthelred II inherited a fragile kingdom descended from Alfred the Great, but his reign became defined by treachery, panic, ...

IN my view, the world is rapidly sliding back toward an era reminiscent of Viking ideology—a time when law and order were weak ...

The mass grave was uncovered during a University of Cambridge training excavation at Wandlebury, an Iron Age hillfort just south of the city. The burial pit itself measured roughly four meters by one ...

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

Constantine II ruled Scotland during an age of relentless invasion and political chaos. Vikings dominated the seas while ...

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As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected friends and neighbors.

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

The Domesday Book is a 1086 manuscript commissioned by William the Conqueror as a massive survey of everything he had ...

A hill on the west Cumbrian coast could be the long-sought burial mound of Ivarr the Boneless, one of the most powerful ...

A windswept mound on the Cumbrian coast could be hiding one of the UK’s most extraordinary archaeological finds ...

In an idyllic corner of an English field, archaeologists uncovered a pit filled with skeletons that bore the signs of violent ...