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A map illustrating the campaign of William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy) in Britain aiming to capture London and secure control of the Kingdom of England (which, Willaim claimed, had been promised to him by Edward the Confessor, the childless...

Coin of William I of England, aka William the Conqueror (r. 1066-1067 CE). (British Museum, London)

Viking storage jars Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2017

Remnants of a Viking cooking pot Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2017

Norse meal as depicted in the TV show Vikings.

Dog amulet measuring 63.1 x 19.9 x 20.8 mm (2.4 x 0.78 x 0.81 inches), possibly from the period of the Liangzhu Culture in China (3400-2250 BCE). Jade dog amulets were often made and worn for protection and those of the Liangzhu Culture...

A scene from Aristophanes' comic play the Thesmophoriazusae on an Attic red-figure Krater. Apulia, 370 BCE. (Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg, Germany)

This U.S. National Park Services map shows the major ancestral Puebloan sites in the Four Corners area of what is now the United States of America.

The proposed location of the Lögberg (Law Rock) at which Iceland's Althing (General Assembly, founded by the Vikings in 930 CE) would have met until 1262 CE when Iceland was brought under Norwegian rule. It lies in Thingvellir which is now...

Photograph of a painting depicting Ingólfr Arnarson (c. 874 CE), who is considered the first historical settler of Iceland. His story is preserved in the Landnámabók and tells how, when his ship was just off the coast of Iceland, Ingólfr...