Brief synthesis The UNESCO World Heritage property comprises the city of Venice and its lagoon situated in the Veneto Region of Northeast Italy. Founded in the 5th century AD and spread over 118 small ...

Archaeologists have found over 30 graves from the Viking era near Aarhus, Denmark, including a “very rare” coffin of an “important woman” who lived in the 10th century. Researchers were ...

A 10th-century Viking burial site has been discovered in northern Denmark during construction work. The site contains around 30 graves linked to a likely noble family from the Viking Age.

It was in the 8th century BCE that the first administrative inscriptions appeared, attesting to the existence of a bureaucratic system—particularly in Israel under the reign of Jeroboam II (ca ...

The imposing 9th century Viking warrior here named Ursa is sort of like the Norse equivalent of Prey’s Naru with her improvisational skills and determined single-mindedness, but matched with a ...

Denmark has been a unified kingdom since at least the 10th century, making it the oldest surviving monarchy in Europe. Metal detectors hit the Danish consumer market in the late 1970s.

Nobody’s sure yet. Where Vikings and Christianity Collided Haithabu wasn’t just any Viking town. Sitting at the edge of the Schlei inlet, it was one of Scandinavia’s key commercial centers — bustling ...

In an accidental find, a 10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in northern Denmark, packed with a "spectacular" trove of ancient objects ...

Here’s the official synopsis: "The anthology story follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge; a ninja in feudal ...

The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century by Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, d. 957 or 8; Muḥammad ibn Ḥauḳal, 10th century; Balkhī, Aḥmad ibn Sahl, ...