In the public imagination, the Vikings were closely-related clans of Scandinavians who marauded their way across Europe, but new genetic analysis paints a more complicated picture.
1,000-year-old horseshoes, sleds, and tools are emerging from a shrinking ice patch in Norway, telling the story of the rise and fall of a mountain pass and the people who traveled along it.
What were gender roles like during Viking times? A Norwegian archaeologist thinks we often misinterpret the past based on our current cultural assumptions.
Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a possible Viking boat burial in Central Trondheim, Norway
Vikings weren’t known to have traveled into the mountains, but a viking sword has been discovered up in the mountains.
When you go out to hunt for geese, the last thing you’d expect is to find an ancient viking sword.
A 20th century find suggests that the Vikings may have explored North America as far south as New York.
A team of researchers from several institutions in Hungary has conducted experiments meant to test the possibility that the Vikings actually did use sunstones to navigate.
“This is going to take years of careful excavation, and it’s going to be controversial,” she said. “It raises a lot more questions than it answers.”
