Additional discoveries included the remains of horses and riders buried alongside each other, along with their equipment.

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with ...

Dr Cat Jarman, a historian and archaeologist specialising in the Viking Age, reviews scenes from TV shows set in the Viking ...

“For this next part, everyone is going to need an axe.” One at a time, 12 undergraduate students chose a blade from the toolbox in a studio at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, a city about ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the ...

A new study reported in the journal Cell on January 5 captures a genetic history across Scandinavia over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. This look back at Scandinavian history is ...

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

The Jelling stones are large carved runestones from the 10th century. From the year 800 to 1050, what we now know as Denmark played a central role as a home base for Viking expeditions far and wide.

Rök runestone, one of the world's most famous, is believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia. With hit TV shows and recent ...

Smallpox, the only human infectious disease to have been successfully eradicated, ailed people at least 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. A study of DNA sampled from Viking Age skeletons ...

A picture of the iron hoard, which consists of 1,000-year-old rods that are seen grouped together in a bundle. A rare stash of 1,000-year-old ironwork, which sat for 40 years in a family's basement in ...