We often hear fascinating stories about how things originated: the universe, the wheel, even pizza. But when it comes to the ...

Archaeologists uncover a 1,300-year-old Avar warrior buried with a rare sword, revealing new clues about early medieval elite life.

The Vikings were unstoppable not just because of their raiding skills but because of their advanced techniques in ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

The Anglo-Saxon Church to negotiate a way forward in a context which, at one time, would have seemed disastrous.

Maddyn Greenway, Savvy Swords and Emily McDonald make up Kentucky’s fourth-ranked recruiting class in the 2026 cycle.

"Perhaps a billion silver dirhams flowed into Scandinavia and the Viking world between 800 and 950," says Gullbekk. That ...

A hiker discovered a reindeer trap emerging from melting ice in western Norway. Hunting accoutrement followed.

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with ...

Ed Root was excited. A past president of the Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Pennsylvania, a local group of war-between-the-states history enthusiasts, he had just heard that the man who owned a sword ...

On July 17, the Liberty brought two Connecticut-based ships into Newport Harbor, accusing their captains of customs violations. The captain of one of the Connecticut ships, Joseph Packwood, went ...

Kenny Brooks and Kentucky have been killing it on the recruiting trail, at least according to Kentucky’s standards. For the first time in program history, Kentucky has not one, but two top 10 ...