In Autun, France, archaeologists discovered a 1,600-year-old fabric woven with gold threads in an ancient burial site. The fabric, once a symbol of elite aristocracy, was found in a lead coffin, along ...

A Viking Age hall, believed to be the largest of its kind ever discovered in Britain, has been uncovered during an archaeological dig at High ...

A Viking Age hall, believed to be the largest of its kind ever discovered in Britain, has been uncovered during an archaeological dig at High Tarns in Cumbria.

Is California for sale? A lighthearted petition to buy the state of California for Denmark prompted more than 200,000 ...

A rumor has spread online for years that Vikings believed a goat whose udders produced an endless supply of beer awaited them ...

The Danube in Depth cruise embarks in Nuremberg and disembarks in Budapest with stops in Regensburg, Passau, Linz, Durnstein, ...

Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable archaeological contexts” and provide “insight into early runic writing ...

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what ...

The research "debunks the modern image of Vikings." ...

The name Vikings refers to the inhabitants of Scandinavia who dedicated themselves to plundering other parts of Europe in the ...

New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Here are some of the latest ...

Viking Cruises is another Norwegian brand bringing a genuine Nordic experience to the fjords. Its ships even have a resident historian onboard and the subjects on this eight-day sailing include ...