Aside from their love of the sea, the ancient Greeks and Vikings shared much more that united them and divided them.

Galvaneus studied for his doctorate in Genoa, the closest major port to Milan and a massive hub for maritime trade. A 2024 ...

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Cape Elizabeth writer Tim Queeney looks at the everyday tool through time, from Neanderthal to Mars exploration.

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Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

No one's fooled into thinking that History Channel's Vikings is, well, history. Still, it is the "History Channel," so you'd think they'd try to be more or less truthful, like you won't see History ...

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with complex ceremonies such as burying their dead in ships. THE ANUNDSHÖG RUNE ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...