During the sixth millennium B.C.E., carvers in present-day Sweden etched patterns into the artifact before redecorating it in ...

“Everywhere in Orkney there is the sense of age, the dark backward and ... she discovered the so-called Sky Axe. This is a polished stone axe head, patterned blue-black and white, which, when ...

The Melbourne diner Meatmaiden is joining forces with Johan Jureskog and his team from the world’s ninth-best steak ...

An exquisitely decorated 7,500-year-old antler from central Sweden was first used as a battle ax and later probably as a fishing harpoon during the Stone Age ... of antler axes with severe ...

A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

Alepotrypa Burial Cave in Greece, used 8,000 years ago and later reused by Mycenaeans, contains ancient historical treasures ...

If George R. R. Martin is the aging king of grimdark fantasy, Joe Abercrombie is its heir apparent. His “First Law” trilogy, ...

The Norse ravaged much of Europe for centuries. They were also cosmopolitan explorers who followed trade winds into the Far ...

The pose of the miniature, for instance, was altered to be more head down and dramatic ... cheery blossoms, wood, stone, smoke, and more. It’s a master class of using paint to create multiple ...