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.

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 ...

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 ...

Presenter James MacKenzie visits the Museum of Scotland to find out what an archaeologist’s work involves. An archaeologist, Dr Andy Heald, explains that they find out about the past by digging ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a Viking age building in northwest England that they believe to be the 'largest discovered and excavated in Britain'. The team dug up a farm in Silloth, Cumbria last ...