Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
A groundbreaking new study has found that pregnancy in the Viking period was far more complex, politicized, and socially significant than previously assumed. The research, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, is the first such in-depth interdisciplinary study of pregnancy…
An exceptionally rare bracelet from the Viking Age has been found in a wetland area near Löt on the island of Öland, Sweden, by a private person. The find has drawn significant attention because of its unusual composition. Most Viking-era…
A new study by scientists at the University of Gothenburg has shed light on the health of Viking-age people in Sweden, showing they suffered from many infections and skeletal diseases. The research, which was published in the British Dental Journal…
A new interpretation of a runic inscription found on a silver arm ring from the well-known Viking-era Galloway Hoard has shed light on who owned it. Researchers at National Museums Scotland, working with specialists from the University of Wales, have…
A new study by researchers Olena Veremeychyk and Olga Antowska-Gorączniak has reignited the debate over eight medieval pyrophyllite disks found in Ukraine. The artifacts, dating to the 12th and 13th centuries, have long baffled archaeologists with their complex design and…
Archaeologists working on the west coast of Norway have uncovered a Viking Age burial site at Skumsnes farm in Fitjar. This site, believed to date back to the early 9th century, has revealed a wealth of artifacts that shed light…
A Viking-era sword, dating back to the 9th or 10th century, has been unveiled by the Military Museum in Białystok, Poland. Found by museum employee Szczepan Skibicki during a dive in the Supraśl River in 2022, this rare artifact is…
A remarkable fragment of a Viking sword, described as a “first of its kind,” has been unearthed near the village of Witmarsum in the northern Netherlands. The artifact was identified as a pommel cap—a decorative endpiece from the hilt of…
Archaeologists have unearthed a vast Viking Age burial ground near Varberg in Halland County, Sweden, during what began as an investigation of a Stone Age settlement. Initially, the team was conducting a routine preliminary examination for the installation of new…
