It is the fifth Viking castle to be discovered in the country since the 1930s.

Guld, elfenben, ædelsten og ibenholt, der blev ikke sparet på noget, da man skulle hylde grækernes største gud med en statue. Men Zeusstatuen var også et stærkt politisk billede, som skulle vise bystaten Elis’ og Olympias position udadtil.

Danish archeologists have uncovered a technologically advanced fortress from the late 10th century—the first one discovered in more than six decades.

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We tend to think of the Vikings as a transient culture, riding the high seas, pillaging villages, and then making off with the spoils. Yet more and more evidence is being discovered that fundamentally changes this image of the Norse seafarers, with fortresses discovered in Denmark suggesting that…

A piece of well-preserved oak found close to the “Borgring” Viking fortress has provided a precise date for its earliest possible construction.

Antwerpen en Brussel zijn mogelijk in één klap één tot twee eeuwen ouder geworden. Microscopisch onderzoek naar de zwarte laag van de steden heeft in ieder geval aangetoond dat Antwerpen al menselijke activiteit kende voor het jaar 900. In Brussel werden sporen van landbouw en veeteelt gevonden die…

Rome wasn't born big. Back before it blossomed into an empire that sprawled across 2.2 million square miles (5.7 million square kilometers), twice the size of modern-day Argentina, Rome was an up-and-coming force threatened by a formidable city-state: Carthage.

When archaeologists uncovered four ancient ring-shaped fortresses in Denmark in the 1930s, the find profoundly changed the way they thought about the Vikings that built them. Rather than mindless marauders, Vikings in the Middle Ages must have been a complex, technologically advanced people to build…

Radio broadcast on the BBC World Service on a coin find, co-authored by Assistant Professor Thomas Birch. Starts at 18:30.