Residents of a prolific and highly-trafficked U.K. university town were shocked when archaeologists unearthed a Viking-era “execution pit” in the center of town. The University of Cambridge announced ...

“Before we uncovered the first remains, our best find was a 1960s Smarties lid,” archaeology undergraduate Olivia Courtney ...

Archaeologists recently found an artifact-filled Viking-era burial site in Denmark — revealing treasures that once belonged to an elite family. The discovery was announced by Moesgaard Museum (MOMU), ...

View post: Iron Flask's Top-Selling Stainless Steel Water Bottle Is on Sale for $17 on Amazon Experts with the Museum Odense spent the last six months excavating the site near the small village of ...

Until now, researchers have mainly focused on identifying who is portrayed on amulets from the Viking Age. Marianne Hem Eriksen wanted to find out how they were used.

The mass grave was uncovered during a University of Cambridge training excavation at Wandlebury, an Iron Age hillfort just south of the city. The burial pit itself measured roughly four meters by one ...

Viking Age mass grave unearthed near Cambridge with remains of ‘extremely tall’ man who had brain surgery - The individual ...

Archaeologists found some unique silver treasures at a Viking Age site in Sweden, then cleaned and restored the artifacts, photos show. Photo from Arkeologerna, SHM Sifting through the stony soil of ...

A graduate student in Sweden has been learning about Vikings through an unusual method: He's done it by sailing like one. Archaeologist Greer Jarrett, a doctoral student at Lund University, has ...

A new study has offered a glimpse of the stark reality of pregnancy in the Viking Age, via an analysis of art and literature from the period. The analysis is based on multidisciplinary evidence and ...