What looked like a tangle of “old wires” in a Norwegian farm field turned out to be a cache of Viking silver that had been ...

Assassin's Creed Discovery Tours can offer valuable educational insights into historical periods, and that may be particularly true for the latest instalment. Ubisoft has released a Discovery Tour: ...

Researchers employed cutting-edge techniques including microwear analysis and Reflective Transformation Imaging to examine figurines housed at the Swedish History Museum, reports Archaeology Magazine.

Viking explorer Leif Erikson is remembered with a large statue in front of the landmark church Hallgrimskirkja in Reykjavik, Iceland. Thanks to famous tales of discovery involving the likes of Erik ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Viking age, spanning the 8th to 11th centuries AD, left a lasting mark on the genetics of today's Scandinavians, according to scientists who also documented the outsized ...

Hidden deep under the floorboards of a small house, an excavation team uncovered four silver bracelets dating to the Viking Age, likely from the 9th century AD.

Between the 8th and 11th centuries, Vikings used their longships to travel from Scandinavia to raid, trade and settle in lands far and wide. While the Lindisfarne raid, the settlements on Scottish ...

New research has revealed the horrors of the Viking age, as the study of skulls showed evidence of devastating disease and infections. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden used ...

Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings. When did the Viking Age begin? How do we know about the Vikings? Where did ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published at ScienceNordic. The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age… All follow the most widely recognised method of categorising historical cultural ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers—and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the realities ...

Discover the latest update on Viking Age spinning tools from Lendbreen, focusing on distaffs and spindle whorls. Insights ...