New light shed on the Viking Age: Scandinavia’s oldest town was built 70 years earlier than thought The Danish town Ribe is the oldest town in Scandinavia. Now a new study suggests that Ribe may have become a town much earlier than thought.
Danish Bronze Age glass beads traced to Egypt Analyses of glass beads found in Denmark give us new knowledge of Bronze Age trade routes.
This is what living in the Viking age looked like Explore one of northern Europe's largest Viking settlements in Denmark through this digital reconstruction.
DNA study uncovers ancient ancestor of Europeans A groundbreaking study of fossil genomes reveals that modern Europeans were shaped in a melting pot of immigrants.
11,000 years old elk bones shrouded in mystery Someone put elk bones in a bog several thousand years ago -- but archaeologists have no clue who it was.
What can we learn from natural disasters? Researchers are debating whether natural disasters can teach us something about human behaviour, and if so, whether that insight could be used to protect us in the future.