Explore Viking Age archaeology, including settlements, ships, and cultural practices.
For centuries, the seabed of the Sound—the narrow strait separating Denmark and Sweden—had been hiding an exceptional witness to medieval ...
The Aska head (left; photograph by O. Myrin, Swedish Historical Museums, CC BY 4.0) and the Rällinge figurine (right; photograph ...
A chance pass with a metal detector in central Norway has uncovered one of the country’s most intriguing Viking Age ...
Archaeologists from Arkeologerna—the Archaeologists at the Swedish History Museums—have unearthed exceptional Viking Age treasures during excavations carried out between 2021 ...
Over seventy artifacts from the internationally renowned Burray Hoard will go on display for the first time at the Orkney ...
A new study has indicated that Britain's industrial economy did not collapse with the Romans' withdrawal, but instead continued for ...
A small figurine carved more than a thousand years ago is rewriting the history of the Vikings. The three-centimeter-high artifact ...
Archaeologists have found new fragments of what is thought to be the world's sole surviving Viking Age packhorse net, adding ...
A groundbreaking study of the Bedale Hoard, a remarkable Viking Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire in 2012, has ...
An unexpected discovery during a summer excavation on the Orkney island of Rousay has fascinated archaeologists—a carved sandstone head, possibly ...
