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 ...

As ancient glaciers melt due to climate change, archaeologists have found abundant artifacts, including many amid a Norway ...

It’s here, among the gravestones and leaves, that we’ve met Einar for a foraging expedition. As a man whose music and life ...

Short trip or long voyage?

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

"Norway and the Nordic countries have a pagan heritage to be somewhat proud of. A heritage that few have been aware of," says ...

Near the center of town, in the old harbor area, a deserted promenade ran between frosty vistas and imposing museums and cultural buildings. The iconic sloped roof terrace of the Oslo Opera House ...

Two Point Museum is a game about how the crushing practicalities of life eventually force you to spend less and less time on the things you truly care about. More specifically, it's a game where I ...

While later Viking-era rune stones—often commemorating powerful ... According to reports from CNN, Dr. Kristel Zilmer, a professor of runology at the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History, ...

In doing so, they will also learn how to approach the main types of written and material evidence relevant for the history of Northern Europe in the Viking Age and the High Middle Ages, for example, ...

Numerous stones carved with runes found across Scandinavia bear fascinating messages, such as one about a powerful Viking queen ... at the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History ...