A Byzantine gold coin that was recently discovered in the mountains of southern Norway has historians perplexed over how it ...

Other early English graves held artifacts that indicated contact with the Byzantines centuries before some Anglo-Saxons served as bodyguards in the Byzantine Varangian Guard. "Those who returned ...

Artifacts from other early English graves also suggest such contacts with the Byzantines, she said, many centuries before some Anglo-Saxons fought as bodyguards in the Byzantine Varangian Guard.

If you were absolutely hankering for an extended lecture on the Varangian Guard, the Rurikid dynasty, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, or other aspects of medieval and early Russian history ...