History remembers warriors for their conquests and kings for their reigns. But this one Viking left behind something more ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered what might be the oldest known rune stone, pushing back the origins of runic writing ...

Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

I've found the show Vikings to be the most accurate portrayal of Christianity on the History channel since the airing of the 2013 miniseries titled The Bible. Sadly, the History channel hasn't always ...

The Viking era lasted nearly three centuries (late 8th century to late 11th century) and had a profound impact on a wide variety of geographical areas, reaching across the known world of that time.

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

Modern languages and ancient history degrees face the axe at Cardiff University. The Russell Group university has announced plans to make up to 400 academic staff redundant as it grapples with a ...