Weddings are one of the oldest time-honored traditions. Even though such a celebration is a common part of our modern lives, ancient cultures also acknowledged and gathered for the joining of two ...

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One of the earliest Norse myths depicts the so-called god of thunder in women’s clothing. Far from undermining Thor’s power, ...

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As The Northman raids movie theaters this weekend, it is doing so with brutal accuracy of Viking history, as far as that history is known. As archeologist Neil Price explains it, the complete picture ...

The newly uncovered Viking-era grave in central Norway is forcing archaeologists to rethink what they thought they knew about how Norse people treated their dead. Instead of fitting neatly into ...

Eggers and Icelandic author Sjón Sigurdsson wrote The Northman as a Viking version of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. And while the story is fictional, Eggers tried to incorporate as much of the Vikings ...

Several dishes were served before the An'xi Tieguanyin tea tour, including country-style earthy chicken soup, Buddha's hand tea-scented chicken, braised bamboo shoots and stir-fried wild mushrooms.

From the sword exchange to a pre-nuptial cleanse, these are the customs you need to know. Weddings are one of the oldest time-honored traditions. Even though such a celebration is a common part of our ...