Archaeologists have found over 30 graves from the Viking era near Aarhus, Denmark, including a “very rare” coffin of an “important woman” who lived in the 10th century. Researchers were alerted to the ...

The seafaring life of a Viking was rough in days of yore. But today, Denmark, one of the ancestral homes of Vikings, often ranks at the top of lists of countries with the best quality of life. Its ...

The Vikings were certainly world travelers: From home bases in Scandinavia they made their way as far west as North America, as far south as North Africa, and as far east as Russia and the Middle East ...

Archaeologists in Denmark uncovered a massive Viking-era structure unlike anything else found in the region so far. Before construction of a house in Hune could begin, archaeologists came to excavate ...

After Rome’s collapse, London fell silent, then reemerged as a crossroads linking Anglo Saxons, Vikings, and distant Baltic traders. Following archaeology and rare eyewitness accounts, this episode ...

Show more Show less Archaeologists have unearthed a large Viking burial site in northern Denmark after workers stumbled across it during a construction project A museum conservator holds a Viking Age ...

A Viking toolbox found in Denmark has been opened for the first time in 1,000 years, revealing an extraordinary set of iron hand tools that may have been used to make Viking ships and houses, ...