A Viking-age burial discovered in Trøndelag, Norway, has left archaeologists baffled by its unique elements. The most ...

A weekend metal detector outing on a Norwegian farm has turned into one of the most intriguing Viking Age finds in years, ...

Archaeologists in Norway have excavated a Viking Age grave of an individual bedecked in costume and jewelry, as reported by ...

Norway already has eight World Heritage sites, including Bergen’s old wharf complex Bryggen, the historic mining town of ...

Archaeologists discover a Viking grave in Senja containing the remains of a woman and a her beloved dog in a boat.

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can now show that the Vikings sailed farther away from Scandinavia, and took ...

The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.

The remnants of a large late-Viking-age hall were recently uncovered by a volunteer archaeology group at a farm in Silloth, Cumbria. The load-bearing timber found there was carbon dated to ...

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Researchers employed cutting-edge techniques including microwear analysis and Reflective Transformation Imaging to examine figurines housed at the Swedish History Museum, reports Archaeology Magazine.