Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off ...

the Archaeological Museum at the University of Stavanger said in a Sept. 11 news release. The team began excavations and soon identified traces of a large, powerful Viking farm from the ninth century.

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

Experts are revealing entirely different relationships built on the exchange of a wide variety of goods from far away places for Viking society. Archaeological evidence reveals that materially, the ...

Vikings had indeed reached the coast of America ... has successfully used satellite images to detect evidence of looters at archaeological sites in Egypt. This spring, her images also revealed ...

A must-visit for Viking Age enthusiasts, the Stavanger region's Norse legacy is celebrated in monuments, museums, and a modern VR experience.

As if that wasn't exciting enough, this is the largest Viking Age building to be discovered and excavated in Britain," stated the archaeological team in a press statement. "It seems very likely ...

"It's all kind of small things, daily life things from the Viking Age or older, which you don't find in other archaeology contexts at least in Norway, because it's gone. It degrades," Finstad said ...

Students could be presented with pictures of real Viking archaeological findings and repeat the process of discussing and drawing conclusions in their group.