Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age. The hoard “was buried in four distinct parcels” that kept the contents inside incredibly well preserved, according to a Feb. 7 news ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...