Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years. ~humanities.languages Article 382 words 18 votes
Norwegian family finds Viking-era relics while searching for a lost gold earring in their garden ~humanities.history Article 9 votes
Denmark's first Viking queen was likely more powerful than the king, research finds ~humanities.history Article 77 words 14 votes
Denmark's parliament to introduce interpreters – Aki-Matilda Hoegh-Dam spoke and answered questions in Greenlandic, causing protests from some lawmakers ~humanities.languages Link 12 votes
Archaeologists reveal largest palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia ~humanities.history Article 379 words 16 votes
Sweden's royal family has taken part in ceremonies marking 500 years since the Scandinavian country emerged as an independent nation ~humanities.history Article 303 words 6 votes
Greenlandic MP refused to speak Danish during a debate in the Danish parliament and instead spoke in her native Inuit language ~humanities.languages Article 320 words 6 votes
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 ~humanities.history Article 378 words 12 votes
This guy shares cool maps of the world every day on Facebook ~humanities.history Article 320 words 5 votes
Intact ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara, the first in a century ~humanities.history Link 5 votes
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 ~humanities.history Article 299 words 6 votes
Kotka, in southeastern Finland, removed the country's last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin ~humanities.history Article 384 words 5 votes
Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde said she won't return a historical document to Poland, as it was a “legitimate” spoil of war ~humanities.history Article 226 words, published Jul 27 2022 2 votes
A homework task prompts kids to reflect deeply on learning, and its limits education Article 379 words 6 votes
Protesters denouncing the intention of a far-right group to burn a Quran in Örebro in central Sweden attacked police on Friday, injuring at least nine religion Article 308 words 8 votes
Denmark says it will take measures to protect teachers' freedom of expression and prevent the risks of self-censorship Article 275 words 8 votes
French Catholics agree to sell property to compensate abuse victims religion Article 294 words 9 votes
Part of a Spitfire which was shot down over Norway during World War II has gone on display after being restored ~humanities.history Article 29 words 5 votes
At least 216,000 children were victims of sexual assault by the French Catholic Church religion Article 332 words 13 votes
Repeatedly clicking the first link on Wikipedia ends up at "Philosophy" 97% of the time philosophy Article 274 words 27 votes
Was Wilhelm Wundt a "Nazi"?: Volkerpsychologie, Racism and Anti-Semitism by Adrian Brock ~humanities.history Article 328 words 1 vote
Tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of the first mobile phone call ~humanities.history Article 228 words 6 votes
Circulus theory: How one man wanted to save the world by taxing its poop ~humanities.history Article 362 words, published Mar 11 2015 10 votes
Roads into Norway will get new signs with the country name also written in the indigenous Sámi language depending on the region ~humanities.languages Article 218 words 10 votes
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 ~humanities.history Article 321 words 8 votes
Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World ~humanities.history Article 396 words 4 votes
Sarah Moss wins the American Philosophical Association's 2020 Sanders Book Prize for her book, 'Probabilistic Knowledge' philosophy Article 344 words 4 votes
Rosa Parks' Stanford press conference recording now accessible online ~humanities.history Article 379 words, published Dec 18 2019 5 votes
Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine ~humanities.history Article 374 words 12 votes
Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on the central Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate the Shiite holiday of Arbaeen, one of the largest organized gatherings in the world religion Article 381 words 6 votes
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 ~humanities.history Article 332 words 8 votes
How to deal with a racist past: A Bristol pub leads the way ~humanities.history Article 316 words, published Jul 1 2020 5 votes
Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century ~humanities.history Article 181 words 6 votes
How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone ~humanities.languages Article 354 words 9 votes
Last person to receive an American Civil War pension dies ~humanities.history Article 227 words 17 votes
Oldest and largest Maya structure discovered in southern Mexico ~humanities.history Article 360 words 9 votes
Danish Lutheran minister who attracted international attention by proclaiming that there is no God or afterlife, but retracted after being suspended, has died religion Article 283 words 5 votes
Microsoft Word now flags two spaces after a period as an error ~humanities.languages Article 352 words 36 votes
LDS Church suspends all worship services worldwide due to coronavirus religion Article 346 words, published Mar 7 2020 13 votes
Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said ~humanities.history Article 278 words 4 votes
United Methodist Church announces plan to split over gay marriage, LGBTQ clergy religion Article 333 words 17 votes