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Stunning scenery, fascinating history and plenty of cinnamon buns – a Viking cruise of Scandinavia was definitely a trip to remember

Uncover the secrets of the Viking pantheon and ...

“There are too many women traveling luxuriously in ‘Darkest Africa’. Eskimos of Disco, Greenland, are publishing a newspaper,” Charles Fort wrote in New Lands. So I checked whether there were still ne

For 5000 years a boulder stood unremarked in a Dorset valley, until one summer day an archaeologist noticed something curious about it...

FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...

Horses were involved in King Harold’s defeat at Hastings – but also in the demise of his Norman conqueror It’s one of the most famous of all medieval images. Harold II stands upon the battlefield at H