The Viking age is welcoming a new kind of hero: women
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.
Scientists have been wrong for 200 years: Viking ships at the bottom of the sea turned out to be something else entirely
Archaeologists from the Stockholm Shipwreck Museum hope to secure funding for further research and excavation of the ...
50 Volunteers Dug Up a Farm and Discovered an Ancient Viking Structure
The remnants of a large late-Viking-age hall were recently uncovered by a volunteer archaeology group at a farm in Silloth, Cumbria. The load-bearing timber found there was carbon dated to ...
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Before the Vikings: The extraordinary Bronze Age
The Nordic Bronze Age shaped Viking culture with trade, war, art, and music, as revealed in a 2025 symposium by top ...
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What You Don’t Know About the Vikings
The Viking age, says Price, “is not for the squeamish ... Photograph by ROBERT CLARK-PHOTOGRAPHED AT VIKING SHIP MUSEUM, MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Around 750 a band ...
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Who were the Vikings?
Isn’t history great? Oh, you look like you need ... The Vikings themselves did not leave a written record during the Viking Age (AD700-1100) but Vikings did use runes. There is writing from ...
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Archaeologists Say They’ve Unearthed Britain’s Largest Known Viking-Age Building Beneath a Family Farm
But while Viking history in Cumbria is well-documented ... Under these conditions, the preservation of any Viking-Age structures is rare. “It’s crazy what they’ve found in such a small ...
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How Viking and Germanic DNA Spread Through the Iron Age Migrations
This allowed for a plethora of unprecedented discoveries on historic Iron Age ... European history. These years marked the dramatic rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the dawn of the Vikings ...
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Secrets of Norse Ships
Indeed, the Viking Age, from A.D. 800-1100, was the age of the sleek, speedy longship. Without this crucial advance in ship technology, the Vikings would never have become a dominant force in ...
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Amazing secrets of Viking Age hoard revealed
A newly translated runic inscription has shed 'compelling' new light on who might have owned the Galloway Hoard, experts have announced. The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than 11lbs (5kg ...
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Viking-Age Ring Fortresses
These five archaeological sites comprise a system of monumental ring-shaped Viking-Age fortresses sharing a uniform geometric design. Constructed between about 970 and 980 CE, the fortresses at ...
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Who were the Vikings?
Isn’t history great? Oh, you look like you need ... The Vikings themselves did not leave a written record during the Viking Age (AD700-1100) but Vikings did use runes. There is writing from ...