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Writing in runes isn't a simple one-to-one conversion of one letter to one rune. This video shows how Old Norse was written using the runes of the Younger Futhark, and then looks at examples of real inscriptions from the Viking Age. Contents...

On September 11, 1857, one of the most horrendous crimes of the old west took place, when over 120 members of a wagon train bound for California were killed in cold blood in southwestern Utah. This event, which is little remembered today...

Virtual Model of the Antikythera Mechanism - 2200 YEARS OLD AMAZING!!! Ο Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων Origin Generally referred to as the first known analog computer, the quality and complexity of the mechanism's manufacture suggests...

A Buddhist stupa in Pakistan, claimed by few to be 4,500 years old, is attracting local and international tourists who hear numerous tales of ancient kings and their enemies who inhabited the area in ancient times.

In AD 79, a baker put his loaf of bread into the oven. Nearly 2,000 years later it was found during excavations in Herculaneum. The British Museum asked Giorgio Locatelli to recreate the recipe as part of his culinary investigations for 'Pompeii...

Let's see how we can classify Icelandic stories! Were medieval Icelanders aware that some of the stories were bogus? What was the most important subject matter? Enjoy this short talk and subscribe for more! #norse #oldnorse #icelandic #icelandicsagas...

A map indicating the location of the city of Faras, founded in 2040-1750 BCE and later a capital of Christian Nubia.

Following the conquest of North Africa by Muslim Arabs in the 7th century CE, Islam spread throughout West Africa via merchants, traders, scholars, and missionaries, that is largely through peaceful means whereby African rulers either tolerated...

The gods of ancient Egypt freely gave their bounty to the people who worked the land, but this did not exempt those farmers from paying taxes on that bounty to the government. Egypt was a cashless society until the Persian Period (c. 525...

The First Intermediate Period of Egypt (2181-2040 BCE) is the era which followed the Old Kingdom (c. 2613-2181 BCE) and preceded the Middle Kingdom (2040-1782 BCE) periods of Egyptian history. The name was given to the era by 19th-century...