Lastly, another important myth tells of Odin’s theft of the “mead of poetry”. This substance was created by two dwarves from ...

Lastly, another important myth tells of Odin’s theft of the “mead of poetry”. This substance was created by two dwarves from ...

Plato and the allegory of the Ring of Gyges may have had a surprising influence on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Kent Smetters, who runs the Penn Wharton Budget Model, has a forecast for when the economy's breaking point could arrive ...

A retired military officer has made his first foray into fiction. Swindon’s Nigel Collett, a former officer with the Brigade of Gurkhas, has written a novel exploring the final days of Roman Britain ...

His debut novel, The Dream of Magnus Maximus, follows the story of the usurping emperor Magnus Maximus and his British wife ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A new, old specter is haunting the world: the bloodthirsty Anglo-Saxons. Well, that is what the Kremlin wants the world to believe. Take the new Russian state-backed film “Tolerance ...

In this video, History Hit duo Louee Dessent and Luke Tomes join the Swords of Penda re-enactment group - volunteers who bring the 7th century to life through painstaking research and experimental ...

The discovery of a 1400-year-old warrior buried in a British field is being hailed as a major discovery and is providing new insights into the so-called Dark Ages and early English history.

The hoard will stay in Norfolk after Norwich Castle was given funding by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund and The Wolfson Foundation to acquire the collection A museum is to become ...

Metal detectorists have found a rare gold and garnet raven head in southwestern England’s Wiltshire from the Anglo-Saxon period about 1,400 years ago. They have also unearthed a gold band or ring ...