St Andrews researchers discover ‘King Arthur’s Hall’ is five times older than thought
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National Museum of Denmark is handing over an iconic cloak belonging to an indigenous group in Brazil at a ceremony being attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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Archaeology student unearths seven spectacular Viking-era curled silver arm rings north of Denmark's second-largest city Aarhus
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Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne
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Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption
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Denmark's first Viking queen was likely more powerful than the king, research finds
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Norwegian family finds Viking-era relics while searching for a lost gold earring in their garden
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Archaeologists reveal largest palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia
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Sweden's royal family has taken part in ceremonies marking 500 years since the Scandinavian country emerged as an independent nation
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Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn
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This guy shares cool maps of the world every day on Facebook
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Intact ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara, the first in a century
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Archaeologists with the Nordjyske Museer in Denmark have found the remains of a large, thousand-year-old homestead, which they believe may have been a Viking hall
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Kotka, in southeastern Finland, removed the country's last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin
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Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde said she won't return a historical document to Poland, as it was a “legitimate” spoil of war
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Part of a Spitfire which was shot down over Norway during World War II has gone on display after being restored
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Was Wilhelm Wundt a "Nazi"?: Volkerpsychologie, Racism and Anti-Semitism by Adrian Brock
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Tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of the first mobile phone call
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Circulus theory: How one man wanted to save the world by taxing its poop
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A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years
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Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World
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Rosa Parks' Stanford press conference recording now accessible online
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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How to deal with a racist past: A Bristol pub leads the way
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Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
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Last person to receive an American Civil War pension dies
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Oldest and largest Maya structure discovered in southern Mexico
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Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said
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Radar uncovers the remains of a Viking ship, discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy in Norway
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa
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Sweden marks 25th anniversary of Estonia ferry disaster – some survivors and relatives want an independent international inquiry into the 1994 accident
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the cutting room floor
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Sweden to return remains of twenty-five Sámi people after more than half a century – historic event aimed at mending ties with the community
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These circular ruins at Smeerenburg are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost
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A female historian wrote a book. Two male historians went on NPR to talk about it. They never mentioned her name. It’s Sarah Milov.
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Digging deeper into Pompeii's past
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Untouched 4,400-year-old tomb discovered at Saqqara, Egypt
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From the liberty cap to the pussy hat: A history of radical objects
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The surprisingly not totally boring search for who invented the spring bar
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Slice of PIE: A linguistic common ancestor
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