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Before the existence of humans, before the cosmos, before the gods, there was the Ginnungagap: a gaping, primordial void. On one side of this yawning nothingness was an icy realm called Niflheim, and ...

David Musgrove reports on new research that casts light on the appearance of the comet in the 11th century, and its depiction in the Bayeux Tapestry ...

“One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female.” The woman, Anna Stone, had been found naked, filthy and chained with several ...

Andrew Roberts: "If we topple Nelson, what do we do about the pyramids, built at least in part by slave labour?" Although it is completely illogical, ahistorical and unfair to natural justice to judge ...