Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off ...

Examples of artificially altered bones belonging to island-dwelling Vikings may be examples of ... published in the journal Current Swedish Archaeology. Researchers think they may have been ...

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what the Norse language was like before the Viking era. Researchers from the ...

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 ...

Chipping away at the flint a tiny piece at a time, the Neolithic person “painstakingly” carved the piece into ... officials with Cotswold Archaeology said in a March 10 Facebook post.

Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled ... satellite images to detect evidence of looters at archaeological sites in Egypt. This spring, her images also ...

As if that wasn't exciting enough, this is the largest Viking Age building to be discovered and excavated in Britain," stated the archaeological team in a press statement. "It seems very likely ...