The evidence turns previous assertions that the Italian Christopher Columbus was the first foreigner to step foot in the New ...

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

History remembers warriors for their conquests and kings for their reigns. But this one Viking left behind something more ...

Among the pieces are two combs made of bone or deer antler, one of which has a geometric decoration that evokes parallels ...

Unfortunately, there is no archaeological evidence for the warriors wearing their iconic horns or wings. “We do have carvings ...

A famed Viking-age silver hoard discovered in Scotland may have belonged to an entire community of people, rather than one ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be a Viking-age building in a recent dig. Teams of volunteers dug up High ...

Sweden's Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, ...

Discovered in a field in Scotland in 2014, the Viking Age "community property" is now the focus of a new exhibition in ...

Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was buried with belonged to an entire Viking community. At such a critical moment in ...