By 490 BCE, King Darius I of Persia had brought Ionia, Thrace and Macedonia under his influence and began his presumptive next phase of subjugation by sending an expeditionary force into Eub…

During the reign of Harald Finehair (ruled approximately 860-940), a man named Atli Valason sailed away from Norway and settled in Iceland. Atli had a son named Asmund, who married a woman n…

Winemaking is an ancient practice in the Levant. But when the Franks arrived during the Crusades they brought their own techniques. The result was an amalgam of traditions.

According to the Icelandic Book of Settlements (Landnámabók), a man named Grim Hroaldsson sailed to Iceland sometime during the so-called Age of Settlement (approximately c. 860-930). Likely…

Ten medieval jobs that have been made redundant, mostly because of changing technology.

The medieval Franks had a troublesome habit of dividing their empire between several related co-kings, often numbering four monarchs. This occurred after the death of King Clovis I in 511, w…

An interdisciplinary Danish team of researchers has used new astronomical knowledge to establish an exact time anchor for the arrival of trade flows from the Middle East in Viking-age Scandinavia.

The B-17 he was piloting had lost two of its four engines to enemy fire, and as Si Spiegel surveyed the ruined landscape, he had one thought: We have to get behind the Russian front. As part of the Al...