Mysterious medieval stone disks unearthed in Ukraine were likely used by the Vikings as solar compasses to navigate the seas, ...

The study’s authors contend that some of the disks display key features that would have used the sun to operate as a compass, sharing similarities with other Viking artifacts originating from ...

What may interest Trump is that in 2021, Greenland banned all new oil and gas exploration in its territory, with government ...

They also share similarities with Viking artefacts found in Greenland and Poland. Initially, researchers thought that the discs were used by local communities as either calendars or as tools to ...

As US author Jared Diamond notes in his acclaimed 2005 bestseller, Collapse, Greenland’s history is marked by the notorious disappearance of its Viking Norse settlers, who lived on the island ...

Vikings. They love what Barraclough calls the “soap opera lives” of Norse gods. And they love colorful characters such as Erik the Red (who named his settlement project Greenland to make it ...

Scotland, too, can stay relatively cool during the summer. “It's not snow in the summer, but it's definitely chilly, especially some of the outer islands, like the Orkneys and the Hebrides and the ...