The famous Sutton Hoo burial site may have also included graves of soldiers recruited by a foreign army, new research has ...

An 11th-century warlord who fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers left behind a reputation that expanded into myth.

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[Brook Mitchell/Getty Images] In Melbourne music boomed across the city and fireworks were set off. [Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images] Fireworks lit up the sky over the Songhua River during a ...

The year that was, as told through 24 photos. We're hurtling towards the end of another year. From politics to penguins, there were countless moments that wrote themselves into the history books.

But I test so many cameras here that sometimes it's easy to forget the gorgeous photos I've taken as part of the process. So as the year comes to a close, I thought it would be a good idea to ...

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The devastating toll of war, the challenges of artificial intelligence and the joy of a baby hippo were among the many moments documented by news agency photographers in 2024. Brazil's Gabriel ...

The interest in Colombians within the mercenary and security market is well justified. Colombia has one of the largest and best-trained militaries in the world. “They have been training under a ...

Hundreds of years ago, someone in the Netherlands concluded that the best way to fill the gaps in their floor was not with tiles, but with bones. Municipal archaeologists working in the historical ...

Sematumba credits the mercenaries for defending Goma and Sake until now. But he noted that they cannot stop the advance of the M23 in the rural province. "These highly paid people are not really ...

David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid. David Abulafia - Legends of the Phantom Rider David Abulafia: Legends of the Phantom Rider - El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary by ...