Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.

The genetic study challenges previous theories about the origins and culture of the Picts.

A new geophysical analysis helps fill gaps in an archeological puzzle: why Norse vanished in the 15th century.

Columbus’s was the last of at least seven discoveries of the Americas.

Vikings used the latrine about 2,500 years ago and their feces now offer researchers a chance to better understand a parasite, Trichuris trichiura.

Researchers sequenced the genome of 442 Viking Age bone fragments from all over Europe. The Vikings may not have been quite as Nordic as we thought.

Invaders, pirates, warriors – the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their

"We have found the oldest evidence of smallpox. Moreover, it seems to have been surprisingly common as early as in the Viking Age."