Once upon a time, there was a Viking king. He prayed to Thor, Odin and Freya and ruled over a land that did not yet have an ...

Archaeologists were following faint signs of an ancient settlement just outside Aarhus, Denmark, when they stumbled upon something unexpected: Viking graves—30 of them. They didn’t set out to find a ...

Archaeologists have found over 30 graves from the Viking era near Aarhus, Denmark, including a “very rare” coffin of an “important woman” who lived in the 10th century. Researchers were alerted to the ...

Archaeologists in Denmark uncovered a massive Viking-era structure unlike anything else found in the region so far. Before construction of a house in Hune could begin, archaeologists came to excavate ...

Show more Show less Archaeologists have unearthed a large Viking burial site in northern Denmark after workers stumbled across it during a construction project A museum conservator holds a Viking Age ...

A Viking toolbox found in Denmark has been opened for the first time in 1,000 years, revealing an extraordinary set of iron hand tools that may have been used to make Viking ships and houses, ...

The Vikings were certainly world travelers: From home bases in Scandinavia they made their way as far west as North America, as far south as North Africa, and as far east as Russia and the Middle East ...