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The Medieval Warm Period had made it possible for settlers from Norway, Iceland and Denmark to live on hundreds ... Archaeologists Find Clues to Viking Mystery’ Greenland has been inhabited ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

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 Viking ...

He explained the site appeared similar to high status Viking age farms in Denmark, because it encompassed not only the hall but also the social structure and broader agricultural activity ...

The runic inscription has been identified as a form of Old English that may read "This is the community's wealth.". | Credit: ...

A VIKING age hall believed to be the largest of its kind ever discovered in Britain has been uncovered during an archaeological dig at High Tarns near Silloth. The excavation, led by Grampus Heritage, ...

A VIKING age hall believed to be the largest of its kind ever discovered in Britain has been uncovered during an archaeological dig at High Tarns near Silloth. The excavation, led by Grampus ...

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 ...

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A famed Viking-age silver hoard discovered in Scotland may have belonged to an entire community of people, rather than one individual. Scholars deciphered sections of runic inscriptions embedded ...