The Vikings were a seafaring people from Scandinavia. They most famously raided in and around the British Isles and the western coasts of Europe. However, what many people do not know is that they were active much further east,...
The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were built. Seafaring brought together people and cities that were miles apart, unable to communicate by land. Civilizations were connected,...
The Viking Age saw the pillaging of the British Isles, France, and the Mediterranean until inequality, Christianity, and sex ended the era.
The period when Scandinavians sailed their boats and raided the lands surrounding them for riches and fame lasted...
The main thing that ancient Greeks and Vikings had in common was their love of the sea. Both were seafaring peoples, yet the former were traders and explorers, while the latter were mostly plunderers.
In regards to Greek versus Norse...
Alexander Ludwig, the star of the hit TV series Vikings, praised Greece through social media during his honeymoon with his wife Lauren Dear on the Greek islands and lost no opportunity to express his unending admiration for the country...
A new study suggests that Bronze Age Scandinavians crossed open seas 3,000 years before the Vikings, showing they were skilled seafarers who regularly traveled between present-day Denmark and Norway. These long-distance voyages likely took place centuries before the well-known...
The riches of the Byzantine Empire were coveted by many—from the Vikings in the northwest to the Arabs in the southeast. Constantinople was the Holy Grail.
The Vikings, who crossed the Baltic Sea and descended across Eastern Europe, were the...
Vikings from Greenland were living in North America's Newfoundland 1,000 years ago according to evidence from a recent study.
Newfoundland is located in Maritime Canada. Scientists have suspected for years that Vikings had settled in the area, but had not been...
In Norway, a family found something valuable and antique using a metal detector. This family was searching for a lost gold earring in their garden when their metal detector uncovered ancient artifacts that were over 1,000 years old. Local...
