We were removing a slab when the head came rolling out at us, and as we turned it around we saw a face looking back at us.” ...

On Wednesday, September 10, the ship will be moved to the new Museum of the Viking Age. This marks the start of a massive ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered invaluable treasure that was buried by Vikings over 1,000 years ago. The University of Stavanger's Museum of Archaeology announced the discovery in a press release ...

The piece was found along with "six bone buttons, a bone die and whetstone, all deposited in a steatite bowl," according to a ...

On Wednesday evening, the 1,200-year-old Oseberg Ship was lowered into its new home harbour. The complicated moving process went entirely according to plan.

Vikings were seafaring warriors who spread from Scandinavia to as far as North America between around 800 and 1050 CE. While Viking art frequently includes animals, depictions of humans are much rarer ...

A unique game piece from Norway that was crafted during the time of Harald Bluetooth may depict a Viking king.

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a hoard of Viking treasure that was hidden for more than a 1,000 years. The treasure was found on a mountainside in Årdal, Hjelmeland municipality, in Norway, the ...

Curator Peter Pentz was exploring the vast archives of Denmark’s National Museum when he stumbled upon an unusual artifact: a ...

Gustav Bruunsgaard, a 22-year-old archaeology student from Denmark’s Aarhus University, was walking through the nearby village of Elsted with a metal detector when he stumbled upon a silver bracelet ...

Gustav Bruunsgaard, a 22-year-old archaeology student at Aarhus University, was walking in a field in Denmark this spring when his metal detector started beeping. Using a small shovel to dig up the ...