After New Zealand passed new gun laws this week, most automatic and semi-automatic weapons have become outlawed there as of Friday — a swift response to the March 15 shootings in Christchurch that ...

A set of medieval skeletons have given a fascinating glimpse into the everyday lives of people in the Viking Age. For a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of researchers examined human ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

Archaeologists have revealed an "extraordinary and unique" collection of medieval artifacts, including a set of "Viking" combs, found during excavations in an English town. The collection, which ...

In 793 a new threat appeared on the small island of Lindisfarne off the coast of England. Groups of pagan raiders from Scandinavia began appearing on the eastern coasts of Britain wreaking tremendous ...