More than 5,000 Viking coins have now been recovered from a hoard in Norway, months after archaeologists believed they had already removed the main concentration of silver from the site. The discovery at Mørstad farm in Innlandet has grown...
Six intact gold arm rings recovered from a forested area near Rold in northern Denmark rank among the largest Viking Age gold hoards ever found in the country, archaeologists announced. The rings weigh a combined 762.5 grams (26.9 ounces)...
A field near Rena in eastern Norway has yielded the largest Viking coin hoard ever found in the country. Archaeologists and metal detectorists have recovered close to 3,000 silver Viking coins, setting a new benchmark in Norwegian archaeological history.
The...
Archaeologists have uncovered a Viking grave with jewelry and preserved skeletal remains in Trøndelag County, Norway, offering new insight into burial customs during the Viking Age. The grave, found at Val in Bjugn, was first reported by metal detectorist...
Researchers have discovered that violence in Viking Age Norway was more common than in Denmark. This goes against what many previously thought.
The study, led by David Jacobson, a sociologist from the University of South Florida, found that people in...
A groundbreaking discovery in York, England, has unearthed a new chapter in ancient human migration. Researchers analyzing the remains of a Roman-era man, believed to be a gladiator or enslaved soldier, found he had 25% Scandinavian ancestry.
This revelation indicates...
An international team, led by Lund University in Sweden, has analyzed ancient walrus DNA to retrace the Viking Age's ivory trade routes. The study, published in Science Advances, reveals that Norse Vikings and Arctic Native Americans, or Indigenous peoples,...
Researchers Dr. Raymond Sauvage and Dr. Richard Macphail recently shared their findings in the field of Medieval Archaeology. They uncovered and studied three ancient Iron and Viking Age mortuary houses in central Norway, located in the village of Vinjeøra.
These...
Dating efforts of a ship burial on Norway's north-central island of Leka have revealed it is the oldest known such burial in Scandinavia. It predates the Viking Age.
Archaeologists and a metal detectorist found the ship last summer on Herlaugshaugen,...
