A pair of ancient runestones in Jelling tell the story of the Viking king who shaped Denmark – and inspired the name Bluetooth
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From 1638-1655 a forgotten Swedish settlement extended across the Delaware Valley – smallest, least-populated and shortest-lived European colony in the US was also the most clandestine
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Kim Bowes on the economic lives of Rome's ninety percent
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How Christianity took over pagan Scandinavia
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Israeli proposal to move early Christian mosaic to US Museum of the Bible sparks controversy
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The medieval food that killed an English king, and could be used to pay your rent
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What was it like celebrating a birthday in the middle ages?
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Minneapolis church still holds services in Norwegian – congregation was founded in 1922 at the tail end of a decades-long migration of Norwegians to Minnesota
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
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An old Norse 'godhouse' has been discovered in Norway – site reflects how the rise of Christianity to the south affected the worship of the Norse pantheon
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When fascism was American; using religion, anticommunism and xenophobia, "Father" Charles Coughlin popularized fascism in 1930s America, not too unlike Donald Trump today
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The Heavenly Court
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In defense of hellfire: The rhetoric of damnation has been lost. But how else can we adequately condemn injustice?
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
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The world’s oldest medieval map
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Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies
The study published in Nature.com: Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies An article about the study: How did Christianity spread?
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The secret history of Leviticus
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