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 ...

They were commonly thought to have been from ships dating to the Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066). But last year, maritime archaeologists at Vrak, the museum of wrecks in Stockholm, revealed that four of ...

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 ...

We'll count that as yet another nod to actual archeological evidence that leadership roles in the Viking Age were far more gender-fluid than previously thought. Mashable Top Stories Stay connected ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...