When did the Viking Age begin and end, and why is it so difficult to define? Explore when and how the era of Scandinavian ...
Three high-status women, though perhaps not Scandinavians themselves, were, or perhaps were not, interred there.
Near the coast of the Norwegian town called Fitjar, a Viking age graveyard of three high-status women has been discovered, ...
Excavations in Norway revealed a rich variety of artifacts, including jewelry, textile tools and stones positioned in the ...
Explore an abandoned hobbit house in Iceland, built in the traditional Viking-age turf style! This unique and enchanting ...
A dig site in Pacé, Brittany has thus far turned up artifacts from the Late Bronze Age through to the medieval era ...
Archaeologists Stumble on a Rich Burial Ground From the Viking Age on a Small Rocky Knoll, May Have Belonged to Women Recent ...
The extent of their raids had a resounding genetic impact throughout much of Europe, as researchers found that many people outside of Scandinavia during the Viking Age had a mix of local and ...
Researchers identified a Roman-era gladiator or soldier with partial Scandinavian ancestry, offering evidence of significant migrations long before the Viking Age. Using an innovative DNA analysis ...
The team then used the method to uncover a later additional northward wave of migration into Scandinavia at the end of the Iron Age (300–800 AD) and just before the Viking Age. They showed that ...
Nevertheless, there was a clear shift in the eighth century CE (early Viking Age) in Zealand (present-day Denmark), which persisted among later Viking age groups in Denmark. Taken together ...
EMBERS OF THE HANDS: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, by Eleanor Barraclough Vikings are one of history’s great cases of false advertising. The people we call Vikings mostly weren’t Vikings.