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 ...

With the help of more than 50 volunteers, archaeologists say they have identified the largest Viking-Age building ever excavated in Britain—a rare insight into the early medieval period’s ...

Often "when we excavate bodies from the Viking age, we are lucky if there are just a few teeth," Lundø said to CNN. But in this case, the dampness of the region meant that for "long periods of ...

Viking Age Textiles are the passion of Stephanie Anderson of Fosston, Minnesota. Viking era textiles spanning from the 700's to the 1100's are a rare study. Stephanie Anderson of Fosston ...

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

Sweden's Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, osteoarthritis, and much more. This is shown in a study in which ...

More information: Carolina Bertilsson et al, Findings from computed tomography examinations of Viking age skulls, BDJ Open (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41405-025-00309-9 Provided by Swedish Research Council ...