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The City That Fell Off a Cliff

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The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present

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Sunstone (medieval)

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Lost islands cited in Welsh folklore and poetry are plausible

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Fascine Mattresses: Basketry Gone Wild

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Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021

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A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas

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A forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)

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Has Thomas Becket's treasured 'little book' been found?

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How far into the Americas did the Vikings travel?

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DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t all Scandinavian

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Among the Norse Tribes: The Remarkable Account of Ibn Fadlan (1999)

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Melting ice reveals a Viking-era pass in Norway’s mountains

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Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?

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Archive of old military maps published

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Early Chinese World Maps (2010)

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Idaho artifacts show humans came to North America via a water route, not land

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London's billion-pound guilds

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An addictive “murder map” of medieval London

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Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave trade revealed

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Escape Compasses

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Estonian Manors

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Medieval trade networks

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Cagot: a persecuted and despised minority found in the west of France

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Let’s Debate Female Viking Warriors Yet Again

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Swedish King's 'forgotten' 17th-century warship found in central Stockholm

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Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish?

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The Real-Life Plan to Drain the Mediterranean and Merge Africa and Europe

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Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history

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Mediterranean Sea filled in less than two years: study

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Victorian London in detail with OpenLayers

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When slaves and free men were shipwrecked together

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Aboriginal storytelling accurately records sea level rises 7,000 years ago

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The Hellburner Was the Renaissance Equivalent of a Tactical Nuclear Weapon

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Georgia: Why so many counties?

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Island of California

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How north ended up on top of the map

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'Viking sunstone' found in shipwreck?

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A new map of medieval London

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A rock that might hold the oldest form of complex life on Earth

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Vikings in al-Andalus and the Maghreb

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Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild (2018)

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The medieval 'New England' on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)

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