The chilly island is famous for its lack of trees. It may have lost much of the foliage about 1,000 years ago thanks to Norse inhabitants. As it turns out, Norse occupation of Iceland might have been ...

The movie Gladiator depicted the story of gladiators who fought in the Colosseum during the golden age of the Roman Empire. Gladiators were selected from various regions conquered by the Roman Empire, ...

Researchers employed cutting-edge techniques including microwear analysis and Reflective Transformation Imaging to examine figurines housed at the Swedish History Museum, reports Archaeology Magazine.

Ancient DNA from Iceland’s first centuries of habitation is forcing historians and geneticists to redraw the map of who arrived on the island, when they came, and how their descendants shaped the ...