A new history of the Vikings captures the humanity of a brutal world
In “Embers of the Hands,” historian Eleanor Barraclough digs deep into the ways that the Vikings loved, traveled and even ...
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Are these the 'Sun Stones'? Study suggests medieval Ukrainian disks were Viking solar compasses
The Viking ship Skidbladner. A full scale replica of the 9th century Viking longship (photo credit: Lenka Adamcikova. Via Shutterstock) A new study suggests that medieval stone discs found in ...
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SOM's Burj Khalifa was the most significant building of 2010
Smith was also inspired by examples of Islamic architecture; in particular, the 9th-century Great Mosque of Samarra in Iraq, defined by its ancient minaret encircled by a distinctively bottom ...
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On the Podcast: The Runway Shows That No Survey of 21st Century Fashion Is Complete Without
The latest fashion news, beauty coverage, celebrity style, fashion week updates, culture reviews, and videos on Vogue.com.
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Two eighth-century communities near Vienna shared culture but not ancestries
We would like to explore what happened to people with East Asian ancestry across Central Europe during the ninth century, after the end of Avar rule, and how this ancestry became undetectable in ...
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Metal Detectorists Discover 1,200-Year-Old Graves That May Have Belonged to High-Status Viking Women
Søren Diinhoff / University Museum of Bergen Archaeologists have unearthed coins, jewelry and stones from graves in Norway that likely belonged to high-status Viking women, reports Science ...
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Art Deco style is popular again, a century after its heyday
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. CORRECTS THE POSTCARD DESCRIPTION - This image provided by the Museum of the City of New York shows a ...