An excavation near Aarhus in Denmark may fundamentally alter how we see the Viking Age: 82 pit houses identified as ...

Archaeologists excavated a mountainside farm in Norway and uncovered 1,100-year-old silver treasure buried by the Vikings, photos show. Photo from Anniken Celine Berger, Archaeological Museum at the ...

Hair parted in the middle, cropped at the back, with a wavy lock styled above one ear. That’s not my haircut of choice, but if you were an elite Viking, it may well have been. That’s the upshot of a ...

French Merovingians (5th-8th century): Clovis, Clotilde, St Remi, other kings and queens of the first French dynasty, dukes, counts and countesses, France, engraving by Bernati from a drawing by ...

A 1,300-year-old Viking sword was recently uncovered by an unlikely group of individuals: a class of first-grade children. The 8th-century weapon was found in a field near the village of Brandbu, ...

Here’s an example of a shinbone where researcher Lisa Mariann Strand found clear signs of sharp-force injuries. These wounds were likely caused by a sharp-edged weapon—like a knife or sword—and ...