Meet the Jomsvikings, a band of elite Viking warriors who lived by their own code, fought for glory and gold, and never backed down from a battle. They were active in the 10th and 11th centuries A.D.

Leprosy carried powerful stigma in medieval Europe, but new skeletal evidence from Danish cemeteries suggests the sick were not always pushed aside in death. In medieval Denmark, burial location ...

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered a stunning medieval gold ring featuring a rare blue gemstone, providing a remarkable ...

The delicate gold ring was made sometime in the Middle Ages and may have belonged to a high-status woman. An archaeologist ...

A hill on the west Cumbrian coast could be the long-sought burial mound of Ivarr the Boneless, one of the most powerful ...

Archaeologists and students in England have uncovered a mass grave, which includes the remains of an exceptionally tall man ...

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A windswept mound on the Cumbrian coast could be hiding one of the UK’s most extraordinary archaeological finds ...

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Night European Inland Waterways Cruise on the Viking River Viking Herja Schedule, Itinerary, and Prices. Plan your 11 Night European Inland Waterways Cruise Viking River cruise with our cruise ...

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages.

A windswept mound on England’s Cumbrian coast may conceal one of the most sought-after Viking burials in Britain: the grave of Ivarr “the Boneless”, a feared 9th-century war leader linked to the Great ...