5 little known facts about Viking culture Longships, berzerkers, and big hairy men with axes are normally the extent of what most people could tell you about the Vikings, and even though this image would be accurate, there was far more to them than the brutish warrior...
A look at drug use by our ancestors People taking things they shouldn’t to feel some kind of effect is nothing new, but in the past people mistook feelings and hallucinations as a direct connection with the gods, and drugs became more than something to do in...
The 5 best places to learn about Iron Age Britain The Iron Age in Britain began around the year 800 BC when someone worked out how to melt iron out of ore. Before the Iron Age began, the strongest material people had was Bronze, a combination of copper and tin, both...
The most expensive artifacts our ancestors left behind Treasure is defined as any kind of expensive metal, gem, or valuable object, but there isn’t a definition as to how old something needs to be in order for it to be classed as treasure. Most of the things our...
Life changing discoveries our ancestors made Things that we see every day like people farming, wearing clothes, and cooking food are so normal that it would be hard to imagine a time when these things didn’t exist. Before our ancestors became what we now recognize as...
5 Things our ancestors left behind that we don’t understand We have a pretty good idea of how our ancestors lived from the countless amount of artifacts and ruins we’ve found, but every once in a while our ancestors built or did something that was just plain...