Vikings

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...

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...

The Vikings were seafaring 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, too. They...

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...

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...