In Norway, the grave of a Viking woman has been found with shells covering her mouth, a unique and unprecedented burial ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On the island of Öland off the coast of Sweden, human remains dating back to Norse times have been discovered in three small trenches.

What looked like a tangle of “old wires” in a Norwegian farm field turned out to be a cache of Viking silver that had been hidden in the soil for roughly 1,100 years. The misidentified scrap, once ...