DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means
In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made ...
The Viking History Of Ribe, Denmark’s Oldest Town
Two major Viking Age museums are the highlight of a visit to Ribe, the oldest town in Denmark and a must-visit on any tour of ...
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A Viking Mystery
“In many respects the Vikings were the medieval equivalent of organized crime,” says Simon Keynes, a professor of Anglo-Saxon history at Cambridge University. “They engaged in extortion on a ...
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Digging Up the Rich Viking History of Britain
The medieval Church of St. Wystan’s in ... That brought us face to face with the Viking presence. The rest is history.” The entry for the year 874 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reads ...
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Vikings in North America: A Saga’s New Chapter
Vikings had indeed reached the coast of America five centuries before Columbus. Now those medieval sagas look ready ... will shed more light on the early history of European exploration of North ...
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Minnesota Vikings
As a nod to Minnesota's significant Scandinavian American history, they are named for the Vikings of medieval Scandinavia. What is on the Minnesota Vikings helmet? - + The Minnesota Vikings have ...
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Explore a Viking Village
The sequences below from the NOVA film "The Vikings" offer a fascinating and unprecedented look at Birka, a medieval Viking village that archeologists recently excavated near modern-day Stockholm.
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In Defense of Vikings
The Crimean War’s Lessons for War and Peace in Ukraine They had a large hand in setting the contours of medieval Europe and ... clearly doesn’t have enough Viking movies, so here is The ...