In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of ...
The discovery of a Roman gladiator with Scandinavian DNA raises new questions about migration patterns in early Europe.
Archaeologists uncovered “an unusually rich treasure trove” inside the graves of three wealthy women from the Viking Age, ...
In the shadows of York’s storied walls, an ancient Roman skeleton has revealed an astonishing secret: Scandinavian heritage ...
In December 2024, archaeologists from the University Museum of Bergen, led by Søren Diinhoff, uncovered a Viking Age burial ...
Follow the complex story of migrations in Europe during the first millennium, as Germanic and Viking ancestry spread across ...
Using ancient DNA, researchers identified migration patterns in Europe during the first millennium AD, linking genetic ...
Novel statistical tool reveals Roman Empire’s genetic legacy more complex than historians thought LONDON — Like examining the growth rings of an ancient tree, scientists have developed a new way to ...
According to a new study published in Nature, Scandinavian genes were present on the British Isles several centuries earlier ...
The Lands of the Rus - The Rus Vikings headed further inland into eastern Europe, raiding Constantinople (unsuccessfully) at first, and then eventually falling into negotiations with the Byzantines ...