Roman with Scandinavian ancestry lived in Britain between AD100 and AD300, long before the Anglo-Saxons or Vikings arrived research shows
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‘Really incredible’ sixth-century sword found in Kent in the United Kingdom
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Dozens of sites linked to the Viking great army as it ravaged Anglo-Saxon England more than 1,000 years ago have been discovered
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Iran announces ‘treatment clinic’ for women who defy strict hijab laws
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The radical optimism of David Graeber
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Navajo code talker who helped allies win Second World War dies aged 107
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Danish family seek to return Etruscan objects to Italy – Bent Søndergaard's children say they want to carry out ‘his final wishes’ and send back antiquities he bought in 1960s
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English still rules the world, but that’s not necessarily OK. Is it time to curb its power?
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The last of the Zoroastrians. A funeral, a family, and a journey into a disappearing religion. (2020)
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Traditionally in the Swedish church the bride and groom walk down the aisle together – but the patriarchal handover is catching on, and now Lutherans want to stop it
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Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds
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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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Rio de Janeiro’s ‘narco-pentecostal’ gangs accused of ordering Catholic churches to close
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Uncovered: 428-year-old secret dossier reveals Elizabeth I’s network of spies
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Fossil of Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome hints at early humans’ compassion
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More than 550 hajj pilgrims die in Mecca as temperatures exceed 50C
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Battle to save pristine prehistoric rock art from vast new quarry in Norway – archaeologists fear more than 2,000 carved figures could be destroyed
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Engraving on an almost 2,000-year-old knife believed to be the oldest runes ever found in Denmark
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Capitalism is dead. '[Technofeudalism is] something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism and the tyranny of big tech
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Ali Abdullah Saleh obituary [2017]
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Commentary - on archaeology and small mundane discoveries
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. Canadian scientists say evidence shows digits may have been ritually removed to appease deities or aid social cohesion.
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Danish parliament has voted to ban the burning of religious scriptures after a series of Qur’an desecrations in the country and neighbouring Sweden
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Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge
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No rides, but lots of rows: ‘reactionary’ French theme park plots expansion
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Danish dictionary to weed out gender stereotypes – ‘career women’ are now paired with ‘career men’ and manslaughter is a linguistic offence
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Europe talks to itself in many languages. That’s why English is vital to its democracy.
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Solar storm confirms Vikings were settled in North America in 1021AD
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Metal detectorist makes Norway's ‘gold find of century’ – cache comprised nine gold medallions and gold pearls that once formed an opulent necklace, as well as three gold rings
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It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships
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Greenlandic MP refused to speak Danish during a debate in the Danish parliament and instead spoke in her native Inuit language
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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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A Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud is central to an emerging theory that Scottish and Irish Celts played a far bigger role in Iceland's history than realised
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Vikings brought their animals to England, research suggests – experts find evidence at Derbyshire cremation site of horses and dogs originating from the Baltic Shield
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb
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‘Exceptional’ trove of twenty-four ancient statues found immersed in Tuscan spa
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa
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Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi
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New gender-neutral pronoun is likely to enter the official Norwegian language within a year, the Language Council of Norway has confirmed
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Stealing Britain's history: When metal detectorists go rogue
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From respair to cacklefart – the joy of reclaiming long-lost positive words
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Modern analysis of a 1,000-year-old grave in Finland challenges long-held beliefs about gender roles in ancient societies
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The secret of how Roald Amundsen beat Captain Robert Falcon Scott in race to south pole? A diet of raw penguin
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Cambodia condemns Vice for edited photos of Khmer Rouge victims smiling
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Denmark sermons law could stifle free worship, warns Church of England bishop – Robert Innes says proposed translation law could affect religious freedoms across Europe
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Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
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'Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest
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