And after the first binge-drinking Danish Vikings got to Britain in the eighth century, the DNA of these bloodthirsty ...

Scientists have discovered a new technique to test the DNA of ancient bones – the findings could completely rewrite our ...

Fragments of an Anglo-Saxon King’s Lost Helmet Discovered, the ‘British Tutankhamen’ Was Decorative and Functional An ...

According to new analysis, the Nordic presence in the UK even pre-dates the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons on these shores, with ...

An Anglo-Saxon calendar for 1061 has 364 days devoted wholly to the ... His new book, ‘England: A Natural History’, explores 12 distinctive habitats of England ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...

From the end of the Roman occupation through the Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions - a new way of testing DNA in ancient bones ...

The lead archaeologist at the grave site told Newsweek that the sword was an "elite object that marked its owner out as special." ...

Brixworth Church has been standing since the late 7th century, long before the Norman Conquest or even the establishment of ...

The Aztecs sacrificed wolves to the war god Huitzilopochtli. The Mi’kmaq tribe hunted wolves for their fur and teeth, which were used as jewelry. The Vunta Kutchin shot wolves in mass, sold their fur ...

I am part Austrian, and every I visit the lakeside hamlets of the Salzkammergut in Styria. They celebrate Christmas in ...

Boyens says she learned one important thing from a letter Tolkien wrote to his son, editor, and archivist, Christopher ...