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Scots archaeologists will start digging where two possible Viking boat burial sites are thought to be hidden on the Isle of Mull...

Iceland’s early viking settlers built extensive cave systems to survive...

Norwegian explorers have found two arrows, after it was left exposed by melting ice...

A hoard of Viking treasure has been bought by a council's museum service...

One of the most exciting archaeological finds in the history of Irish art was unearthed on Tipperary's Derrynaflan Island by a man and...

Kaupang was a harbor town supposedly located within the larger district known in the literature as “Skiringssal”...

The project will provide an interactive experience for visitors to glimpse the island's Norse history...

One such day was the 8 June, 793. That was the day the Vikings attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne...

Norway's Viking ships can finally look forward to an improved home following the government's change of heart on funding...

Ten years ago, experts concluded that the three world-famous Viking ships on display at Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum needed a new home...

Ninth-century France proved very lucrative for the Vikings. It was a land marred by civil war and bad harvests, and the Norsemen took adv...

The Weaver’s Sword is a Viking artefact, believed to date to the late 11th century...

A campaign has been launched to raise £776,250 to bring a history-changing Viking hoard that was discovered in a field near the south Shr...

Scientists pinpoint drought as a likely cause for the abandonment of Greenland's Norse communities...

An app developed by academics at the University of Liverpool aims to change that, and to reveal how important Lancashire and Lakeland were..

Valhalla at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery will explore Viking attitudes to life and death through 1,000-year-old artefacts...

The Vikings used their longships to cross the Atlantic Ocean and settled in Canada as early as 1021, according to a new study providing...

An encampment will be created in Crossmichael later this month with members of the public given the chance to visit and enjoy craft and...

The forebears of current inhabitants are the Vikings - specifically the Norsemen who started settling these inhospitable islands around...

Turgesius was a Viking king who laid waste to many churches in the north Midlands...

While Roman, Visigothic and Muslim heritages all live on today in varying degrees, the legacy of the Vikings in Spain is more obscure...