The Mongolian Arc: exploring a monumental 405-kilometer wall system in Eastern Mongolia, constructed between the 11th and 13th centuries A.D.
Vikings in Varnhem, Sweden, suffered from tooth decay: lesions and abrasions on teeth reveal dental problems and attempted treatments
Blood, sacrifice and drunkenness: how Christmas was celebrated in the Viking Age, with the transition to the Christian era, the celebration took on a new meaning
Ancient DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire shifted populations in the Balkans, according to a study in Cell
Herlaugshaugen burial, in mid-Norway, shows Scandinavia’s oldest known ship burial; the mound was constructed during the Merovingian period
‘Bone biographies’ reveal life and times of medieval England’s common people: the hard-knock lives of those who lived in Cambridge
Is the Melun Diptych, 15th century French painting, depicting an Acheulean handaxe, an ancient stone tool used by hominins?
Shipboard cannon found off Marstrand on the Swedish coast may be the oldest in Europe; the study has been published in The Mariner’s Mirror
The Self Portraits Rooms at the Uffizi Galleries: twelve rooms show six hundred years of art history in the form of self-portraits and portraits
The Danish colonisation of Greenland in the 18th century was in part driven by the desire to re-establish contact with early Norse settlers that vanished from the island in the course of the 15th century
