Archaeologists recently found an artifact-filled Viking-era burial site in Denmark — revealing treasures that once belonged to an elite family. The discovery was announced by Moesgaard Museum (MOMU), ...

What looked like a tangle of “old wires” in a Norwegian farm field turned out to be a cache of Viking silver that had been ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered invaluable treasure that was buried by Vikings over 1,000 years ago. The University of Stavanger's Museum of Archaeology announced the discovery in a press release ...

A recent excavation expedition at a village in central Denmark surpassed expectations when a team uncovered 50 well-preserved skeletons. The rare unearthing occurred at a Viking-era burial site Åsum ...

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 woman cleaning her parents’ basement in Valdres stumbled on 32 millennium-old iron ingots, likely used as a payment system, experts said. Photo from the Innlandet County Municipality We’ve all done ...

After ancient artifacts are discovered, where do they go? Aside from a minority of pieces sitting in personal collections or artifacts being studied in the lab, many items make their way from a buried ...

The Vikings were far from a monolithic group. The Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes each brought something different to the table ...

Archaeologists recently found an artifact-filled Viking-era burial site in Denmark — revealing treasures that once belonged to an elite family. The discovery was announced by Moesgaard Museum (MOMU), ...

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