The wives of Henry VIII infographic
Henry VIII & his wives ~ finally and exhaustively! All we have to add is that these three Queens were relatives ( Boleyn, Howard, Parr), all these three could be beheaded (Parr was very close to execution and murder), all these three were, probably, the most beloved wives of Henry VIII of England.
The 7 Most Terrifying Archaeological Discoveries
The 7 Most Terrifying Archaeological Discoveries |Vikings
National Post
Wounds from the battlefield: What Richard’s remains revealed about war-scarred king
The Tudors as we've never seen them before
After seven years' research, the National Portrait Gallery has revealed what the Tudor monarchs really looked like – and it's fascinating, says Alastair Smart
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They came out of the mist on an icy wind, and froze the blood of weaker men. | Viking
"This is the earliest and only individual portrait of a black African to have survived from the late middle ages and the Renaissance (1500s). He has a mustache and a forked beard, and his black hair is largely covered by an orange bonnet with a turned-up brim on which there is a gold or silver pilgrim’s badge of Our Lady of Halle, a town near Brussels that became a place of pilgrimage frequented by the Habsburg rulers of the Low Countries." (unknown source)
Medieval Artifacts
Viking Gargoyle Animal heads like this 11th century carving can be found throughout Ireland and England and display the powerful artistic contribution of the Viking culture to these countries. The animal depicted is most likely a wolf, now vanished from these regions, but at one time an important animal in Celtic-Norse iconography.