During the last 800 years, the majority of volcanic activity were in the north and east volcanic zones -- both lightly populated regions, Algeo said. But western Iceland, which includes the ...

As a Catholic philosopher and avid student of Aquinas, I am always fielding questions about whether this medieval saint is “still worth” reading today, nearly 800 years after his birth.

The day-to-day clothing worn by a young woman from the Song dynasty, around 800 years ago, has been digitally reconstructed by Chinese scientists using the latest technology. They discovered that ...

The approximately 40-year-old individual was referenced in the Sverris Saga, an 800-year-old text that describes a military raid in 1197. The history notes that, during the raid, a dead man was ...

The proof of such a tactic has recently been identified in Norway, and relates to a person being thrown down a well over 800 years ago. According to a passage in the Norse epic Sverris Saga ...

During the last 800 years, the majority of volcanic activity were in the north and east volcanic zones — both lightly populated regions, Algeo said. But western Iceland, which includes the capital of ...

The fusion of history, archaeology, and genetics is cracking an 800-year-old Nordic mystery. Researchers from Norway used ancient DNA to corroborate a story from the Sverris Saga, where a man’s ...

In the 800-year-old Sverris saga that follows the story of real-life King Sverre Sigurdsson, the author recounted the tale of tossing the corpse of a man -- later known as "well-man" -- into a ...

Researchers have unearthed new findings about a mysterious, centuries-old corpse that was dumped in a Norwegian castle’s well. Most of what is known about Norway’s early history comes from the ...