Ends up Unearthing 1,200-Year-Old Viking Treasure On a quiet island off Norway’s southeast coast, a family embarked on what seemed like a simple mission—to find a lost earring using a metal detector, ...

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

Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

Scientists Blown Away After Ground-Penetrating Radar Reveals Outline of a 1200-Yr-Old Viking Ship Around two years ago, ...

In Autun, France, archaeologists discovered a 1,600-year-old fabric woven with gold threads in an ancient burial site. The fabric, once a symbol of elite aristocracy, was found in a lead coffin, along ...

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

A treasure hunter unearthed a silver coin minted during the reign of Guthrum, a Viking commander of eastern England.

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.