English borrows a lot of words from different languages. Words include rendezvous, genre, and even lemon. English is more of ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

The remnants of a large late-Viking-age hall were recently uncovered by a volunteer archaeology group at a farm in Silloth, Cumbria. The load-bearing timber found there was carbon dated to ...

Or so the old story goes. But evidence discovered by archaeologists throws that widely accepted tale on its head after several analyses of organic material, suggesting that the Vikings were ...