Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery ...

This online mythology course is an introduction to the religion of the Vikings as it is recorded in Old Norse and Scandinavian literature from the medieval period. You will learn about the different ...

In Portugal, in the city of Figueira da Foz, medieval manuscripts were discovered in a dumpster. After examination, it turned out that the oldest of them is over a thousand years old. An ...

Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval ... off any ink and writing on the fresh surface. The old text isn’t entirely gone, though. It remains embedded in the ...

Called 'Old Norse Sagas', these tales of heroes, warriors, epic adventures and amazing insights in to daily life all still seem highly relevant today. Written and narrated by Dr Janina Ramirez ...