From hearths and looms to combs and ear picks, discover eight everyday household items that helped Viking families cook, work ...

An image of what appeared to be houses covered in moss authentically showed Norwegian houses made by Vikings. Rating: Fake (About this rating?) Throughout 2025, various social media accounts posted an ...

Learn how a road project near Aarhus uncovered a 1.08-million-square-foot Viking Age textile site with 82 pit houses, flax processing areas, and links to trade. What began as a routine archaeological ...

Recent work published by Dr. Raymond Sauvage and Dr. Richard Macphail in Medieval Archaeology describes the excavation and interpretation of three Iron- and Viking-Age mortuary houses in central ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the 1,200-year-old remains of a large Viking temple in Ose, Norway that was dedicated to the worship of the Norse gods Thor and Odin. "Archaeologists say the large wooden ...

• Diana Dretske is a historian curator at Libertyville-based Dunn Museum, operated by the Lake County Forest Preserves. She writes the Lake County History blog for the Forest Preserves. This is her ...