The graves, dating to the second half of the 10th century, align with the reign of King Harald Bluetooth—the monarch who ...

The attack on Lindisfarne in 793 came from a viking settlement in the North, possibly originating in Norway. It was not the ...

The hoard, dating back roughly 1,000 years, was found on the shores of the Schlei, an inlet in the Baltic Sea.

Archaeologists have uncovered a 10th-century Viking burial site in northern Denmark containing a remarkable collection of ancient artefacts. The discovery occurred during construction work near ...

The inscription measures roughly four by five feet. Within its chiseled border lie 255 runic symbols — characters from ...

Throughout history, great civilisations have risen, flourished and then disappeared, leaving behind ruins, legends and a host ...

Ole Ginnerup Schytz, an engineer in Denmark’s sleepy Vindelev agricultural area, had used a metal detector only a handful of times when he found a bent clump of metal in a friend’s barley field. At ...

Matthew Seaver from the National Museum of Ireland tells us why the new Words on the Wave exhibition at the NMI is an ...

Danny Boyle and scriptwriter Alex Garland’s horror saga takes an inspired mythical turn, following a young boy’s quest to secure his ailing mother’s safety in what remains of a country ravaged by ...

Introduction Europeans did not think we would find out about our black human species that inhabited Europe before the arrival of the Caucasians from the Caucasus Mountains in Central Asia .

Archaeologists were surprised to find 30 Viking Age burials in Denmark, and even more surprised by the extravagant grave ...