The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

A 22-year-old college student in Denmark uncovered an ancient find that turned out to be much larger than originally thought. This past spring, Gustav Bruunsgaard, an archaeology student from Aarhus ...

Archeologists recently uncovered a massive cache of jewelry, silver coins, and other relics at ancient gravesites in western Norway. At least three of them appear to belong to a trio of highly ...

Jewelry found in Skumsnes by metal detectorists led archaeologists to over 20 Viking graves with coins and ancient treasures, photos show. Photo from University Museum of Bergen On a rocky island off ...

Archaeologists have unearthed dozens of "unusual" Viking burial plots, as well as artifacts, which are spread over nine separate archaeological sites.

Researchers have discovered that an ancient gold disc found in southern Denmark includes the earliest written reference to the Norse god Odin, revealing that he was worshiped up to 150 years earlier ...

Like so many critical ice formations worldwide, Norway's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate as global temperatures ...

A PENDANT shaped like Norse god Thor’s hammer and unearthed in Norfolk has been linked to Britain’s first Viking invaders. The artefact was made mostly from silver in the ninth or tenth century. But ...

Derek McLennan, 49, unearthed the incredible haul of ancient Viking artefacts in a field in Dumfries and Galloway in 2014 THIS is the incredible Viking treasure hoard that bagged one lucky metal ...

Concealed inside an inconspicuous lump of soil lay an ancient Viking treasure. The small artifact was discovered during an archaeological excavation in eastern Norway in 2021, according to a recent ...