To be mentioned on a rune stone during the Viking ages was a pretty big deal, as only important people were mentioned on them ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America. 5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 ...

Celebrate 40 years of wows at the award-winning JORVIK Viking Centre! Hop aboard our time capsule to 10th century York, and take in the sights, sounds and even the smells – including rotting ...

While functioning for only a brief period, this chain of Viking-Age fortresses is representative of the largest monuments that ... testify to the early stages of state formation and socio-political ...

Researchers used computed tomography (CT scans) to peer inside 12th-century ... Viking existence. Back in 2005, excavation ...

This is an elaborate and rare form of 9th or 10th century Viking gold ring. It was found during the excavation of a drainage ditch in Sedbergh. It is a double-banded hoop made from a gold strip ...

The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people ...

Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless christian ...

Historian Robert Bartlett explains how the Vikings of the 10th Century mixed with the French to create Normandy and transform Europe. Watch the full documentary The Normans on BBC Select.

an excavation near the town’s historic Varnhem Abbey yielded a trove of early Christian Viking remains, including skeletal and dental specimens of over 300 people living between the 10th and12th ...

New Norse adventures await as Michael Hirst, creator of the acclaimed Vikings, prepares to return to the Viking world once again with a brand new series called Bloodaxe. The project is completely ...

Last year, the discovery of an ax head on a mountaintop overlooking Norway’s Trondheim Fjord led archaeologists to a tenth-century Viking grave. Though they found no remains, the team recovered ...