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 ...

The year 2025 marks 80 years since the end of World War II, which claimed more lives than any other war in human history. Victory in Europe Day, May 8, commemorates the ending of fighting on the ...

Researchers excavated the pieces and as they dug deeper into the pile, they found more than 10 pounds of artifacts carefully buried in a hoard. The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age.

The 1960 discovery of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows ... westward and eastward from Scandinavia, the Vikings left artifacts, such as this 10th-century silver coin, along their trade ...

The artifacts have been frozen in ice for centuries ... “They are all small things, everyday objects from the Viking era or earlier, which cannot be found in other archaeological contexts ...