For material evidence, he had the age-crusted sword, broken in two, and fragments of the ax and shield which were buried with “The Beardmore Viking” in Ontario. These relics were found in 1931 ...

Often "when we excavate bodies from the Viking age, we are lucky if there are just a few teeth," Lundø said to CNN. But in this case, the dampness of the region meant that for "long periods of ...

It was supposed to be a routine Stone Age settlement excavation to clear a path for a new roundabout and water pipes near Tvååker in southern Sweden. It turned into so much more, as archaeologists ...

Archaeologists in central Denmark have unearthed a rare Viking Age burial site containing what they called around 50 "exceptionally well-preserved" skeletons. This significant discovery could ...

It is dated to the Viking Age, a period in medieval history roughly between the late 8th and 11th centuries when seafaring Norse people from Scandinavia, commonly referred to as Vikings ...

Families experienced live forging demonstrations of swords and axes with “LaForge,” learned the ways of life of Viking ...

Your support makes all the difference. Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered a mysterious Viking Age burial ground with graves shaped like stone ships. As many as 139 of these graves have been ...

Experts hope to conduct DNA analyses and possibly reconstruct detailed life histories, as well as looking into social patterns in Viking Age, such as kinship, migration patterns and more. WHYY thanks ...

Classic party-based RPGs are few and far between in the age of battle ... with some Viking-themed special win conditions such as being the first to forge Odin’s Sword or discovering and taking ...

Experts hope to conduct DNA analyses and possibly reconstruct detailed life histories, as well as looking into social patterns in Viking Age, such as kinship, migration patterns and more.