The Romans and Vikings left few genetic traces of their occupations of Britain, research suggests
Regardless of its almost 400-year-long profession of Britain, that included establishing the English city of Bath (imagined here), the Romans left a reasonably little hereditary imprint on the British individuals….
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Why didn’t the Vikings colonize North America?
An illustration of Leif Erikssen and his team off the coast of Vínland (modern-day Newfoundland, Canada )in a Viking landing boat. ( Image credit: North Wind Picture Archives through Alamy…
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Vikings in Norway were much more likely to die violent deaths than those in Denmark
A Viking skull revealing marks of blunt force injury to the forehead. (Image credit: Lisa Mariann Strand) Viking age individuals who resided in what is now Norway were even more…
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