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Anglo-Saxon warfare was characterised by frequent and violent conflicts between petty kings, which ultimately led to the rise of larger kingdoms such as the Kingdom of Mercia, the Kingdom of Northumbria, and the Kingdom of Wessex. In early...

Birka, located on the island of Björkö in present-day Sweden, was an important trading center and strongly fortified town in the Viking Age which flourished from the 8th through the 10th centuries CE. Along with the town of Hedeby which is...

There is a cyclopic fortress and an ancient settlement at the southern edge of the necropolis in Lchashen, Armenia. The fortress dates from the mid-3rd millennium BCE while the settlement dates from the 4th millennium BCE. Archaeologists...

Archaeologist and leading Viking specialist, Neil Price, looks at how Vikings are portrayed in popular films and TV shows.

The Völuspá (Old Norse: Vǫluspá) is a medieval poem of the Poetic Edda that describes how the world might have come into shape and would end according to Norse mythology. The story of about 60 stanzas is told by a seeress or völva (Old Norse...

The Sphinx Gate at Alacahöyük (the site of a Neolithic and Hittite settlement in central Turkey) was built in the 14th century BCE. It was the south entrance of the city and was fortified with towers. It was flanked by sphinx protomes sculpted...

Reconstructed 17th-century CE Powhatan Village at the Jamestown Settlement living history museum.

The Minoan settlement of Hagia Triada archaeological site, Crete (1600-1450 BCE).

Reconstructed English homes of 17th-century CE Jamestown Colony of Virginia. Jamestown Settlement living history museum.

Overview of the ruins at Alacahöyük, the site of a Neolithic and Hittite settlement in central Turkey. Alacahöyük was the centre of the flourishing Hattian culture during the Bronze Age. It was later occupied by the Hittites who used the...