A 22-year-old college student in Denmark uncovered an ancient find that turned out to be much larger than originally thought. This past spring, Gustav Bruunsgaard, an archaeology student from Aarhus ...

Researchers have discovered that an ancient gold disc found in southern Denmark includes the earliest written reference to the Norse god Odin, revealing that he was worshiped up to 150 years earlier ...

Jewelry found in Skumsnes by metal detectorists led archaeologists to over 20 Viking graves with coins and ancient treasures, photos show. Photo from University Museum of Bergen On a rocky island off ...

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

A PENDANT shaped like Norse god Thor’s hammer and unearthed in Norfolk has been linked to Britain’s first Viking invaders. The artefact was made mostly from silver in the ninth or tenth century. But ...

Roy Søreng, a local metal detectorist, found a Viking Age brooch in Norwegian soil. When he called archaeologists to the site ...

Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

When we think about Norse Mythology, it can be difficult to shake the image of an otherworldly Chris Hemsworth with bulging muscles, luscious golden locks and a distinctly sarcastic sense of humour.

Aidan Gray, a Princeton senior majoring in classics, came well-prepared to his class on “The Vikings: History and Archaeology.” He was eager to recreate an inscription from the ninth-century Kingmoor ...