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 ...

Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed 50 “almost intact” human bodies from a “rare” and “unusual” Viking Age burial site, ...

they do provide a clear but increasingly intriguing snapshot of the Viking world at a time of transition through a female lens. The burial site sat on a “strategic farm,” lead archaeologist ...

A cluster of burial mounds was excavated in the ... Could this have been a Viking attack on a monastery? The site appeared to have been occupied for hundreds of years, from well before the Vikings ...

This is why today, Viking burial sites are so important to archaeologists and historians – the graves are packed full of treasures and belongings that tell us so much about how the Vikings lived.

Archaeologists recently unveiled remarkable treasure from an excavation at the Skumsnes farm in Fitjar last autumn, including priceless Viking jewelry and coins.

The finds soon prompted a team of archeologists to travel to the site, known as Skumsnes ... which doesn’t match Viking burial practices. If true, then the grave may have functioned as a ...

Although the famous burial mounds were built by the predecessors of the Vikings, the site of Old Uppsala was an important place during the Viking Age and is a must-see for travelers in Uppsala.

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.