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A dig is taking place in Northumberland with hopes of finding a camp belonging to the Viking Great Army...

Hopes of uncovering a rare Viking boat burial at a site on the Isle of Mull have been dashed...

Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic...

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

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...

A St Edmund memorial penny worn by a Viking to "advertise his Christianity" has been found by a metal detectorist...

Identified by ancient proteins, fur was important as a trade and status item....

Historians have long believed that walrus ivory traded throughout Ukraine and Russia during the Middle Ages came from the Barents Sea...

Archaeologists have identified the possible burial site of Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson, using satellite data from the Polish village of...

Mosekærstenen is the 44th runestone found in the area around Randers, and the National Museum must now appraise the stone to determine ho...

Archaeologists excavating at Birka on the island of Björkö, Sweden, have discovered a Viking Age shipyard....

Pieces of an ornamental Viking sword have been reunited after 1,200 years apart...

Excavations of a Viking-era site in Iceland has revealed a previously unknown man-made cave....

The vikings were influenced by cultures before and informed those after, finding an artefact that genuinely adds to the picture of the Vi...

The survey has now revealed a boat grave in addition to several burial mounds. The boat measures between 8 to 9 metres and was placed in....

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...

On 28th October, 1209, the inhabitants of the Welsh borough of Llanfaes at the mouth of the Menai Strait would have seen six longships...

Viking artefacts were found in Bebington, Merseyside which will be examined to uncover new insights into where they came from...

The Vikings took great care of their personal hygiene and the English men found this odd and repulsive.Contrary, the English (as ...

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

Scientists from the University of Nottingham are examining the chemical fingerprint of iron weapons from the Viking age which was used du...