The remnants of a large late-Viking-age hall were recently uncovered by a volunteer archaeology group at a farm in Silloth, Cumbria. The load-bearing timber found there was carbon dated to ...

An attentive passerby noticed something in a wetland in Sweden and picked up a rusty brown loop. The item turned out to be a rare Viking artifact. The finder, who chose to remain anonymous, visited a ...

Archaeologists from the Stockholm Shipwreck Museum hope to secure funding for further research and excavation of the ...

Experts are revealing entirely different relationships built on the exchange of a wide variety of goods from far away places for Viking society. Archaeological evidence reveals that materially, the ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

Researchers at Vrak – Museum of Wrecks, in Stockholm, hope to get funds to excavate a 15th-century shipwreck from the waters ...

Norway's glaciers have uncovered artifacts from the Stone Age, the Iron Age, the Middle Ages and the Viking Age.

As if that wasn't exciting enough, this is the largest Viking Age building to be discovered and excavated in Britain," stated the archaeological team in a press statement. "It seems very likely ...

With its distinct natural resources, its openness to the outside world, and the hierarchical society it fostered, the period ...

"It's all kind of small things, daily life things from the Viking Age or older, which you don't find in other archaeology contexts at least in Norway, because it's gone. It degrades," Finstad said ...

Visitors to the Westman Gaming Expo at the Keystone Centre over the weekend were transported back in time as Viking ...