Since the location where the ring was found was once a royal castle, archaeologists suspect it was worn or lost by a rich, ...

Between the 8th and 11th centuries, Vikings used their longships to travel from Scandinavia to raid, trade and settle in lands far and wide. While the Lindisfarne raid, the settlements on Scottish ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed the remains of a 1,500-year-old farming village near the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The remains of a Viking ship have been discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy, on ...

Marianne Hem Eriksen is also Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. She receives funding from The Research Council of Norway (grant 251212). She is affiliated with The Young Academy of Norway.

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...