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A chance discovery is shedding new light on early Norse history, after two old school-friends, armed only with a metal ...

Most human beings need eight hours of sleep per night to function and perform well, research has found. However, new ...

Thinly sliced raw fish on plain white rice. How did this Japanese staple take over the world? And what has ...

Scattered through Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, the Bajau are a semi-nomadic tribe of fishers with extraordinary freediving skills. Research ...

The 1755 earthquake of Lisbon had such a profound effect on the world that we are still feeling its impact ...

Seated high above the Rhine Valley in Germany is the 13th Century Castle Frankenstein. Some believe that the castle, and ...

It's easy to think that the Viking world was dominated by bearded, macho men, but that assumption is wrong. The ...

The Poison Garden at the Alnwick Garden in Northumberland, England is one of the deadliest gardens in the world. It ...

In 1995, archaeologist Ivan Turk discovered a unique perforated bone in the Divje Babe cave in Slovenia. The artefact was ...

If you were asked to picture the most successful pirate of all time, who would you imagine? Perhaps Long John ...