When in 955 ad a 20,000-strong force of Magyar raiders besieged the city of Augsburg, Saxon King Otto I gathered an army to ...

When England’s first true king confronted Viking power in the north, one of his most effective weapons became his manipulation of loyalty ...

He was never meant to be king. His brothers died in battle, one by one. The Vikings were unstoppable, the kingdom in ruins. From the swamps of Somerset, Alfred rose—beaten, betrayed, but not broken.

In a release, officials described the find as a “high-status grave containing two individuals buried alongside a fully harnessed horse, weapons and personal items.” ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

The 1,400 year-old "sand burials" of two people and a horse were found near a nuclear power plant construction site in the ...

The city’s price ceiling is being broken. Most buyers in the project are foreign residents from the United States and the United Kingdom.

A "masterpiece" TV series based on a bestselling series of novels is streaming now in the UK. The Last Kingdom premiered in 2015, and is a gritty historical period drama set in 9th and 10th-century ...

An archaeologist shows a group of visitors around excavations at the heart of Benin City in Nigeria, in an area that was once part of the royal palace of the Benin Kingdom. When visitors arrive at ...

It always amazes me how much history is still being uncovered today, despite the time that has been dedicated to looking and sheer quantity that has already been discovered. It’s cool to think about ...