With its distinct natural resources, its openness to the outside world, and the hierarchical society it fostered, the period ...

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

During the Viking era Scandinavian sailors were the undisputed masters of the sea. In their ground-breaking longships they were able to travel as far east as the Caspian Sea and as far west as ...

Photograph by David Guttenfelder A helmet outfitted with beardlike chain mail protected a wealthy lord who lived before the Viking age, when Scandinavia was wracked by turmoil. Photographs by ...

Credit: Arkikon The period between AD 180 and 550 was an era of great transformations in Scandinavia, where ancient tribal societies faced significant challenges and the first forms of organized ...

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 ...

Long before the Viking Age, small kingdoms began forming across Scandinavia, reshaping tribal societies and setting the stage for future conquests. Historians say these early rulers borrowed elements ...

Excavation in Cumbria has revealed Britain’s largest Viking building, offering a glimpse into 10th-century Norse settlements.

The extent of their raids had a resounding genetic impact throughout much of Europe, as researchers found that many people outside of Scandinavia during the Viking Age had a mix of local and ...

Viking Age Textiles are the passion of Stephanie ... And I'm known kind of all over the Scandinavian world and all over Europe and the United States. I'm a knitter. I learned how to knit from ...