Saturday, 28 July 2012

Christian Vikings

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Christian burials in Ribe in Denmark have been dated to mid 9 th century Danish Archaeologists have been busy digging around the ...

Viking boat bid for Barrow Dock Museum funds

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"Vikings" are taking to the water to raise money for a south Cumbria museum hoping to house a newly-acquired treasure hoard....

Fant Håkon Håkonssons kongsgård

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Arkeologer har funnet restene av en kongsgård som tilhørte Håkon Håkonsson. Funnet på Avaldsnes blir betegnet som en sensasjon. – ...
Thursday, 26 July 2012

Viking burial exhibit in York

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The Jorvik Viking Centre in York has launched its exhibition Valhalla: Examining Viking Burials in the British Isles , open now un...

Valhalla: In Search Of The Viking Dead

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Historical artefacts revealing how the Vikings celebrated and commemorated their dead have gone on display in York.  Sarah Maltby, ...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012

It's Viking heaven at York's Jorvik as Valhalla goes in search of dead Norsemen

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A detail from Thorwald's Cross, found on the Isle of Man. © Photograph John Caley, 2009 Manx National Heritage Exhibition: Valh...
Monday, 16 July 2012

Rowing like Vikings in the name of science

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A Viking museum in the German town of Busdorf has welcomed the largest reconstruction of a medieval long-ship, the Havhingsten, or Sea ...

More Viking-Era Artifacts Surface in Salme Dig

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An archaeological excavation that resumed last week in Salme on the island of Saaremaa, a site where ancient ships were previously f...

Museum Confirms Salme Find as Oldest Known Viking Sailing Ship

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The Estonian Maritime Museum's research says one of the ancient ships found in archeological excavations in Salme in 200...

Double-Edged Sword Found in Salme Ship Burial Site

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Among the latest finds at the ancient ship burial site in Salme, Saaremaa, archaeologists have discovered a well-preserved do...
Thursday, 12 July 2012

Lost Viking Military Town Unearthed in Germany?

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Archaeologists excavate an eighth-century town in northern Germany. Photograph courtesy Andres S. Dobat, Aarhus Universitet   A b...
Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Climate in Northern Europe Reconstructed for the Past 2,000 Years: Cooling Trend Calculated Precisely for the First Time

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An international team that includes scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has published a reconstruction of the c...
Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Oar walking, underwater wrestling and horse fighting – historian examines the sports and games of the Vikings

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Playing ball games is an activity played by children around the world. While today’s parents might worry that their sons and daughter...

Archaeologists dig up bog army bones in Denmark

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Danish archaeologists said on Tuesday they had re-opened a mass grave of scores of slaughtered Iron Age warriors to find new clues ab...

Legendary Viking town unearthed

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Danish archaeologists believe they have found the remains of the fabled Viking town Sliasthorp by the Schlei bay in northern Germany,...
Thursday, 14 June 2012

Furness Viking treasure appeal reaches £50,000 target

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The hoard of Viking silver coins and artefacts will now stay in south Cumbria A museum has raised almost £50,000 to keep a hoa...
Monday, 11 June 2012

Archaeologists Drill Tønsberg’s Viking Ancestry

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The Norwegian city of Tønsberg, was first mentioned by a contemporary writer was in the year 1130. According to Snorri Sturluson, Tønsber...

Early Iron Age fashion from Denmark

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C olourful patterned clothes appear in the early Iron Age according to new analyses of 180 textile samples from 26 different bog finds...

Monumental effort to save the threatened Viking treasures of Oseberg

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The wood fibers of the richly decorated ceremonial wagon are disintegrated because of the preservation method. Credit: © Museum o...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Archeologists to Study Pre-Settlement Hut in Iceland

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The first archeological research in Iceland this year will begin at Hafnir in Reykjanes, southwest Iceland, on Monday. Archeologists wi...

"This place has never been empty..."

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"Since the discovery in 1999, of a large settlement site from Early Stone Age (ca 6 000 -- 4 000 BC) close to the river Motala strö...
Monday, 21 May 2012

New Look for the Current Archaeology Website

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Current Archaeology now has a dedicated news editor in-house, and the news articles are now posted on our website as the stories break...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Furness Hoard Viking treasure on display in Cumbria

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  The hoard of Viking silver coins and artefacts were discovered in 2010   A Viking hoard of silver coins and artefac...
Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Skeletons Found at Mass Burial Site in Oxford Could Be 10th-Century Viking Raiders

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Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John's College may not be who they initially seemed, acco...
Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Oxford Online Courses in Archaeology

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The University of Oxford's online courses in archaeology for Trinity term are now open for enrolment. "Cave painting...
Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Lancaster City Museum 'ideal place' for Silverdale hoard

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  The hoard was declared treasure and is currently being valued A Lancashire museum would be an "ideal place" fo...
Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Funds needed to keep Viking hoard in South Cumbria

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  The hoard of Viking silver coins and artefacts is valued at £49,500 A fundraising appeal is under way to keep a Viking tr...
Sunday, 15 April 2012

Scientists find runes on ancient comb

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Archaeologists have found the oldest engravings of letters ever to be discovered in central Germany, officials from the area announ...
Friday, 13 April 2012

Skeletons found at mass burial site in Oxford could be ’10th-century Viking raiders’

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Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John’s College in Oxford may not be who they initially seemed...

Ancient coins offer clues about medieval society

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Norway’s economic system in the Middle Ages was more sophisticated than previously thought. Keywords: Archaeology , The...
Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Viking-era 'piggy bank' yields silver treasure

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A bronze, Viking -era "piggy-bank" containing thousands silver coins dating from the 11th century has been unearthed on the Balti...
Monday, 26 March 2012

Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers - Online Course

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University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education Mon 14 May to Fri 27 Jul 2012 Ravagers, despoilers, pagans, heathens - t...
Thursday, 22 March 2012

Viking Invaders Brought Armies of Mice

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Vikings who conquered new lands unwittingly brought with them another sort of invader, a new DNA study says—mice. Scientists studyi...
Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Norway's pilgrim trail

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Reaching into its medieval past, Norway has revived an old pilgrim path as a challenging long-distance walking trail with possible spirit...

Vikings 'carried mice to colonies'‎

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Mice hitched a ride with Vikings to mount their own invasions in the 10th century, research has shown. A genetic study shows that V...
Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Unique pagan temple unearthed in Norway

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A fascinating discovery is shedding light upon pre-Christian Scandinavian religion and early Christian inroads into Norway. In the Norweg...

Pre-Christian Temple Discovered in Norway

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Excavations for house foundations at Ranheim, Norway, have uncovered a small "gudehovet" or "god temple," a structure...

The Viking Journey of mice and men

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New research carried out at the University of York and published in  BMC Evolutionary Biology  has used evolutionary techniques on modern...
Friday, 16 March 2012

New TV drama – “Vikings” – to be filmed in Ireland and Northern Europe

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The History Channel in the US and History Television in Canada have announced they will be airing a scripted drama series, Vikings . Th...
Thursday, 15 March 2012

Professor Ray Page (1924 - 2012)

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The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic is sad to announce the death on 10 March 2012 of Professor Raymond Page, Emeritus Elring...

New viking village discovered

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Norwegian archeologists have discovered the foundations of at least 15 buildings, an 80-meter long street and a harbour near Gokstadhau...
Wednesday, 14 March 2012

New Norway Viking settlement discovered

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Experts have found a hitherto unknown Viking area with the aid of modern science and no shovels, reports say. Gokstad's grave moun...
Thursday, 8 March 2012

Scots and English universities to share Viking knowledge

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Scottish and English universities are to work together in an effort to expand knowledge of Viking culture. The University of the High...
Sunday, 26 February 2012

Unique runestone included in UNESCO list

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A unique runestone that is the first to mention Norway as a country and that documents the establishment of Christianity there, has bee...

Norse settlement may help us adapt to global changes

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limate scientists have been examining the past environments and archaeological remains of Norse Greenland, Iceland and North Atlantic Is...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Well-Red Vikings sail in for festival

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YORK’S annual Viking invasion has created a combination between Norse history and a traditional fairy story. A key event in this yea...
Monday, 13 February 2012

Roar talent at Viking festival

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THE annual Jorvik Viking Festival swung into action with a skirmish in York city centre. Viking characters wearing battle attire to...
Friday, 10 February 2012

Time Team: Mary-Ann Ochota quits Channel 4 archaeological show

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Time Team has been thrown into disarray after Mary-Ann Ochota became the second presenter to leave the Channel 4 archaeological progra...