Chess is widely seen as a great equalizer. Players from every social, racial, and economic class have squared off across the ...

A belt buckle featuring a snake devouring a frog discovered in the A bronze belt buckle featuring a snake devouring a frog is ...

According to the prevailing English accounts, King Harold made a momentous, 200-mile march over land to the Battle of ...

In medieval Denmark, people could pay for more prestigious graves closer to the church — a sign of wealth and status. But ...

Workers were taken aback after discovering a 1,300-year-old fragment from a Viking ship during a drainage excavation project ...

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that ...

This experiment recreates a Viking style kitchen using open fire iron cookware and historically inspired ingredients The ...

The tale of King Harold, who lost England to William the Conqueror, still looms large in British popular culture. But the ...

ZME Science reports that Shlomi Katzin of the University of Haifa discovered a three-foot-long Crusader-era sword encrusted ...

Divers have found a medieval metropolis is sitting at the bottom of a mountain lake in Kyrgyzstan. The city, currently on the ...

The discovery, located in Grindasundet near the village of Telavåg, is the first time such physical evidence has been found ...

Scientists are reconstructing the oldest known map of the night sky - long thought lost to time - by using X-rays to reveal its secrets.