Viking silver mistaken for wire beneath farmland ...

The deviant burials of the Viking Age are a chilling testament to the psychological landscape of the Norse people. They reveal a society that lived in the shadow of an impending apocalypse, where the ...

The destruction of the "Dannebroge" was documented in art and history books. Now, thanks to a museum's excavations, ...

We have also found remains of one of the 19 people who are listed as missing,” said Otto Uldum of the Danish Viking Ship ...

The newly uncovered Viking-age grave in coastal Norway has stunned archaeologists, not because of its weapons or treasure, but because of a quiet, unsettling detail at the dead woman’s face. A pair of ...

Interior of the reconstructed Viking Age chieftain's hall (longhouse) at the Lofotr Viking Museum in Borg, Norway. This reconstruction represents the massive high-status farmsteads that defined the ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a strange Viking Age grave in Norway with scallop shells covering the mouth of the skeleton, raising questions about its symbolism. Archaeologists are perplexed ...

A team of University of Cambridge students made a giant discovery during a training dig just three miles outside of the city, both figuratively and literally. The dig seemed unpromising at first, but ...

Students at a prestigious university in the United Kingdom recently unearthed a likely execution pit on the outskirts of town — dating back 1,200 years. The University of Cambridge announced the ...

Workers were taken aback after discovering a 1,300-year-old fragment from a Viking ship during a drainage excavation project in the Netherlands. The employees had been replacing a sewer system in Wijk ...

It’s no ordinary shipwreck that maritime archaeologists have uncovered off the coast of Copenhagen, Denmark. Hidden for more than six centuries, the towering vessel has been identified as the largest ...