The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/features/undercovering-the-past)
A new exhibition of medieval Icelandic manuscripts showcases the earliest versions of many core texts of Norse mythology and Icelandic literature, including the Poetic Edda and the Saga of the Greenlanders, which details the Norse discovery of the New World.
The Antikythera Mechanism, initially dismissed as shipwreck debris, is now celebrated as an ancient analog computer. Recent studies challenge its function, suggesting it measured a lunar, not solar, year.
A new study uses skeletal trauma, grave goods, runestones, and infrastructure to argue that Viking Age Denmark and Norway had markedly different relationships to interpersonal violence.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has recognized the Appian Way as a World Heritage site. The Appian Way, sometimes called Europe’s first expressway, was a major strategic and commercial route for the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, and houses many sites sacred to Roman deities along its path.
A new exhibition at Denmark’s National Museum uses the figure of the völva, a female oracle and sorcerer, to explore how pre-Christian Scandinavians thought of time, religion, and destiny.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, have identified an ancient Nile branch, the “Ahramat Branch,” which likely facilitated pyramid construction and ceremonial activities near Memphis, explaining the concentration of pyramids in this area.
