New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

Archaeologists from the Stockholm Shipwreck Museum hope to secure funding for further research and excavation of the ...

The remnants of a large late-Viking-age hall were recently uncovered by a volunteer archaeology group at a farm in Silloth, Cumbria. The load-bearing timber found there was carbon dated to ...

The Nordic Bronze Age shaped Viking culture with trade, war, art, and music, as revealed in a 2025 symposium by top ...

Archeologists in Denmark have made one of the most notable discoveries in recent history: a group of 50 ... Often "when we excavate bodies from the Viking age, we are lucky if there are just ...

But while Viking history in Cumbria is well-documented ... Under these conditions, the preservation of any Viking-Age structures is rare. “It’s crazy what they’ve found in such a small ...

Isn’t history great? Oh, you look like you need ... The Vikings themselves did not leave a written record during the Viking Age (AD700-1100) but Vikings did use runes. There is writing from ...

This allowed for a plethora of unprecedented discoveries on historic Iron Age ... European history. These years marked the dramatic rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the dawn of the Vikings ...

These five archaeological sites comprise a system of monumental ring-shaped Viking-Age fortresses sharing a uniform geometric design. Constructed between about 970 and 980 CE, the fortresses at ...