Vikings in America arrived centuries before Columbus. Explore the 1021 AD scientific proof and Norse artifacts found.

A pair of 13th-century Icelandic texts known as the “Vinland Saga” describes the journey of famous Norse explorer Leif Erikson to a land the Vikings called Vinland. Although there’s plenty of poetic ...

Archaeologists have unearthed numerous Viking burials sites and extensive treasure which date back to the Iron Age, Ancient Origins reported. Researchers made the remarkable discoveries while ...

Like so many critical ice formations worldwide, Norway's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate as global temperatures steadily increase. Underneath those dwindling layers of ice, archaeologists are ...

This round, silver pendant was found in a 10th-century elite woman's burial in Sweden in 1920 and is the only known depiction of a pregnant Viking. The artifact, known as the Ash Pendant, is in the ...

By focusing on the violence of Viking society, the new exhibition revives the traditional image of Vikings as Dark Age bad boys—Pillage People, if you will, who bullied Britain and France, and even ...

Archaeologists in Italy found three prehistoric tombs, known as “fairy houses,” with artifacts inside. The photo shows Tomb XIX. Photo from the Regional Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture for ...