Battle to save pristine prehistoric rock art from vast new quarry in Norway – archaeologists fear more than 2,000 carved figures could be destroyed ~humanities.history Article 629 words 19 votes
Engraving on an almost 2,000-year-old knife believed to be the oldest runes ever found in Denmark ~humanities.languages Article 504 words 11 votes
Capitalism is dead. '[Technofeudalism is] something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism and the tyranny of big tech Article 2785 words, published Sep 24 2023 36 votes
Ali Abdullah Saleh obituary [2017] ~humanities.history Article 1193 words, published Dec 4 2017 5 votes
Commentary - on archaeology and small mundane discoveries ~humanities.history Article 578 words, published Jan 7 2024 4 votes
Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue ~humanities.history Article 660 words 11 votes
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. ~humanities.history Article 776 words 26 votes
Danish parliament has voted to ban the burning of religious scriptures after a series of Qur’an desecrations in the country and neighbouring Sweden religion Article 448 words 26 votes
Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge ~humanities.history Article 520 words 12 votes
No rides, but lots of rows: ‘reactionary’ French theme park plots expansion ~humanities.history Article 6 votes
Danish dictionary to weed out gender stereotypes – ‘career women’ are now paired with ‘career men’ and manslaughter is a linguistic offence ~humanities.languages Article 608 words 26 votes
Europe talks to itself in many languages. That’s why English is vital to its democracy ~humanities.languages Article 1101 words 17 votes
Solar storm confirms Vikings were settled in North America in 1021AD ~humanities.history Article 705 words, published Oct 21 2021 28 votes
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 ~humanities.history Article 476 words 8 votes
It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships ~humanities.history Article 1046 words 10 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
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 ~humanities.history Article 881 words, published Jan 4 2023 6 votes
Vikings brought their animals to England, research suggests – experts find evidence at Derbyshire cremation site of horses and dogs originating from the Baltic Shield ~humanities.history Article 616 words 6 votes
World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing ~humanities.languages Article 476 words 9 votes
Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb ~humanities.history Article 648 words 7 votes
‘Exceptional’ trove of twenty-four ancient statues found immersed in Tuscan spa ~humanities.history Article 788 words 8 votes
Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa ~humanities.history Article 463 words 7 votes
Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi ~humanities.history Article 997 words 4 votes
New gender-neutral pronoun is likely to enter the official Norwegian language within a year, the Language Council of Norway has confirmed ~humanities.languages Article 414 words 17 votes
Stealing Britain's history: When metal detectorists go rogue ~humanities.history Article 2536 words, published Jun 2 2020 9 votes
Modern analysis of a 1,000-year-old grave in Finland challenges long-held beliefs about gender roles in ancient societies ~humanities.history Article 672 words 11 votes
Statues of historical figures are lazy, ugly and distort history. From Cecil Rhodes to Rosa Parks, let’s get rid of them all. ~humanities.history Article 4524 words 10 votes
The fight to whitewash US history: At least fifteen states are trying to ban schools from teaching critical race theory and the 1619 Project. The reactionary movement stretches back to the 1920s. ~humanities.history Article 2609 words 18 votes
The secret of how Roald Amundsen beat Captain Robert Falcon Scott in race to south pole? A diet of raw penguin ~humanities.history Article 950 words 7 votes
Cambodia condemns Vice for edited photos of Khmer Rouge victims smiling ~humanities.history Article 484 words 17 votes
Denmark sermons law could stifle free worship, warns Church of England bishop – Robert Innes says proposed translation law could affect religious freedoms across Europe religion language Article 783 words 13 votes
A visualization of how the Arab Spring engulfed the Middle East, and changed the world ~humanities.history Article 493 words 8 votes
Exceptionally well-preserved thermopolium, a Roman-era fast-food stall, unearthed in Pompeii ~humanities.history Article 502 words 16 votes
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 ~humanities.history Article 552 words 7 votes
'Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest ~humanities.history Article 1064 words 11 votes
Life during wartime: How west Belfast became the frontline of the Troubles ~humanities.history Article 3820 words 5 votes
The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades, who enlisted from around the world to fight fascism in Spain ~humanities.history Article 2938 words 9 votes
Dark hair was common among Vikings – research reveals they were a genetically diverse group and not purely Scandinavian ~humanities.history Article 710 words 14 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
Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age ~humanities.history Article 683 words 3 votes
Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge ~humanities.history Article 920 words 7 votes
Sweden to present findings on Olof Palme assassination – sources say South Africa handed over dossier, but not everyone is hopeful mystery will be solved ~humanities.history Article 1052 words 5 votes
Oldest and largest Maya structure discovered in southern Mexico ~humanities.history Article 360 words 9 votes
How America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead: As racism warps the US pandemic response, a health crisis has escalated into a culture war ~humanities.history Article 2023 words 5 votes
May 13th, 1985: The day Philadelphia police bombed a city street, leaving 250 homeless and eleven dead, including five children ~humanities.history Article 2030 words 28 votes
How the Kent State massacre marked the start of America's polarization ~humanities.history Article 1860 words 11 votes
Board-game piece from period of first Viking raid found on Lindisfarne – small glass crown thought to be rare archaeological link to raiders ~humanities.history Article 607 words 12 votes