• Diana Dretske is a historian curator at Libertyville-based Dunn Museum, operated by the Lake County Forest Preserves. She writes the Lake County History blog for the Forest Preserves. This is her ...

Vikings from Greenland — the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas — lived in a village in Canada’s Newfoundland exactly 1,000 years ago, according to research published Wednesday. Scientists have ...

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We all love a good Viking game, and Atone Heart of the Elder Tree looks to shake things up by presenting Norse mythology in the form of a colourful, hand-drawn rhythm RPG game - a far cry from the ...

Anna Källén receives funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, grant number P17-0574:1. Daniel Strand receives funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, grant number P17-0574:1. A middle-aged white man ...

The Draken Harald Hårfagre, a 115-foot long wooden Viking ship, spent the last few days of its East Coast American Expedition docked at New York City’s North Cove Marina and Untapped Cities Insiders ...

Europe's oldest officially dated tree has been uncovered in Greece, and despite living more than a millennium (and counting!), it doesn't look a day over 200. The tree, dubbed "Adonis" by the ...