The Viking age is welcoming a new kind of hero: women
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.
Scientists have been wrong for 200 years: Viking ships at the bottom of the sea turned out to be something else entirely
Archaeologists from the Stockholm Shipwreck Museum hope to secure funding for further research and excavation of the ...
50 Volunteers Dug Up a Farm and Discovered an Ancient Viking Structure
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 ...
Mystery over Viking treasure solved after runic inscription deciphered
A newly translated runic inscription has shed light on the Galloway Hoard, considered to be one of the richest collections of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain and Ireland when it was uncovered ...
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The Largest Building From The Viking Age Was Found Beneath A Family Farm In England
Beneath a family farm, there lies the remains of the largest known building from the Viking Age in Britain. A […] ...
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Stephanie Anderson, Viking Age Textiles
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 ...
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What You Don’t Know About the Vikings
What began as small raiding parties early in the Viking age grew into armies that conquered large swaths of Europe. Photograph by David Guttenfelder A helmet outfitted with beardlike chain mail ...
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Viking skulls inspected with CT scans reveal severe morbidity
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 ...