A new study, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, compared rates of violence in Viking Age Norway and Denmark societies
According to a new study, the plague may have been a contributing factor to the population collapse in the end of the Neolithic, known as the Neolithic decline, in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe
In 1274, King Magnus VI, the Law Mender, united the entire Norwegian kingdom under one common law: the Code of the Realm
Vittrup Man crossed over from forager to farmer before being sacrificed in Denmark: DNA, isotope, protein analysis reveal genetic ancestry and migration of a human found in a peat bog
A new study shows, among other things, that there have been two almost total population turnovers in Denmark over the past 7,300 years
Despite intensive scientific analyses, the Centaur Head at the National Museum in Copenhagen, originally from the Parthenon, remains a mystery
A new study on the ingredients of the ancient Egyptian mummification balms reflects the high status of the noblewoman Senetnay
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
Tree rings and strontium point researchers to the provenance of 400-year-old timber; the study is published in PLoS ONE
The study shows for the first time that Vikings brought animals, specifically horses and dogs, to Britain in the 9th century
