The newly uncovered Viking-age grave in coastal Norway has stunned archaeologists, not because of its weapons or treasure, but because of a quiet, unsettling detail at the dead woman’s face. A pair of ...

Archaeologists in coastal Norway have uncovered a Viking-Age grave that is forcing specialists to rethink what they know about death, ritual, and identity in the early medieval north. At the center of ...

One such burial was found when amateur metal detectorists came across partially exposed bronze brooches in the dirt in Norway’s remote Senja Island in 2023. A little digging revealed rib bones ...

Swedish archaeologists recently found an “unusual” Viking-era coffin dating back over 1,100 years. The discovery was announced by Arkeologerna, an archaeological organization affiliated with the ...

A Viking-era grave near Cambridge reveals severed heads, stacked limbs, and signs of organized violence from the ninth ...

The 30 Viking graves range from richly furnished to bare-bones, hinting at a burial ground for both nobles and the people they enslaved. Reading time 2 minutes Archaeologists from Denmark’s Moesgaard ...

Earlier this year, Roy Søreng was out with a metal detector in Bjugn in Trøndelag County when he came across an oval brooch, a piece of jewellery typical of the Viking Age and the centuries before.