The grave looked, at first, like a familiar Viking Age burial: a woman laid to rest with care, surrounded by objects meant to speak for her in death. Then archaeologists brushed away the soil around ...

A metal detectorist in central Norway recently discovered a Viking Age metal brooch. But when he led archaeologists to the site, they found much more: a burial with evidence of an unusual ritual they ...

The US seafood industry is mourning the death of Ernest "Ernie" Panacek, who ran one of the Mid-Atlantic's most important commercial fishing docks and popularized New Jersey scallops nationwide.