Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

A man who crafted a replica Viking shield in his garden shed before donating it to a museum on the Isle of Man said the ...

A Viking woman found in Norway with scallop shells over her mouth leaves experts puzzled about the meaning behind this burial ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Roy Søreng, a local metal detectorist, found a Viking Age brooch in Norwegian soil. When he called archaeologists to the site, they found much more than what they were expecting. The archaeologists ...

The burial plots were spread over nine separate archaeological sites. Archaeologists uncovered "unusual" Viking burial plots and treasures across a number of archaeolgical sites. Large cremation sites ...

“The preservation, the jewellery, the symbolism, it’s extraordinary on multiple levels,” Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) archaeologist Raymond Sauvage says of the discovery of a ...

It was a place where Kings, Picts and Vikings mingled and the powerful wished to be seen, both in life and in death. Govan on ...

"Perhaps a billion silver dirhams flowed into Scandinavia and the Viking world between 800 and 950," says Gullbekk. That ...

The House of Manannan has received a replica Viking Age shield crafted by Chris Clayton, a frequent visitor to the Isle of ...

The Anglo-Saxon Church to negotiate a way forward in a context which, at one time, would have seemed disastrous.

If I travel to another country, I’ll generally need to make a currency exchange before I can go shopping. However, in ancient ...