Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Up Helly Aa, longship burning festival – in pictures

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Hundreds of costumed people carried flaming torches as they took to the streets of Shetland, in Scotland, during the annual Up Helly Aa f...
Monday, 19 January 2015

Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers (Online Course)

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Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers (Online Course) Mon 26 Jan to Fri 17 Apr 2015 University of Oxford  Department of Con...
Sunday, 18 January 2015

Viking blacksmith found buried with his tools

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A well-stocked grave of a blacksmith from the Viking Age is one of the best finds in Norway last year, according to Norwegian archeologists...
Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Viking Artefacts

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Viking Artefacts is an interesting blog run by Thomas Kamphaus. He describes his interest as follows:  "Why interested in viking...
Monday, 12 January 2015

Mid-Norway Vikings among the first to sail to British Isles

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Circular brooch from a woman’s grave in Nes, Bjung municipality. (Photo: Per Fredriksen, NTNU University Museum) Archaeological findin...
Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Oldest Danish town possibly older

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If you thought Ribe was the oldest town in Denmark, you're still right, but now a new study from Aarhus University shows the town ma...
Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Think again about the pillaging Viking warriors - it wasn't just the men who raided Britain

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Viking colonisations of Europe may have been more like romantic getaways than drunken stag weekends, according to a study of Norse DNA ...
Monday, 8 December 2014

Beer, Beef and Politics: Findings at Viking Archaeological Site Show Power Trumping Practicality

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Vikings are stereotyped as raiders and traders, but those who settled in Iceland centuries ago spent more time producing and consuming bo...

Major Viking Hall Identified in Sweden

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A Viking feasting hall measuring almost 50 metres in length has been identified near Vadstena in Sweden. Archaeologists from Stockholm Un...
Monday, 1 December 2014

EMAS Easter Study Tour to North Scotland and the Isle of Skye

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EMAS Easter Study Tour to North Scotland  and the Isle of Skye 2 - 8 April 2015 The 2015 EMAS Easter Study Tour is to the Nort...
Friday, 28 November 2014

Sword’s Secrets Revealed

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The discovery of an Anglo-Saxon sword this summer was cause for great excitement at the  Barrow Clump excavation. We were keen to learn a...
Thursday, 27 November 2014

HAS ONE OF HARALD BLUETOOTH’S FORTRESSES COME TO LIGHT?

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In September 2014, archaeologists from the Danish Castle Centre and Aarhus University announced the discovery of a Viking fortress in a f...

Recreating clothes from Norway's Iron Age

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A few years ago, the oldest known piece of clothing ever discovered in Norway, a tunic dating from the Iron Age, was found on a glacier in ...
Thursday, 20 November 2014

A peek inside a Viking piggybank: CT scans of treasure chest reveal hidden brooches, gold ingots and ivory beads

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Derek McLennan found more than 100 objects in Dumfries in September In addition to the pot, hoard includes jewellery, arm bands and silv...
Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Scanning the Viking Hoard

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The recently discovered Viking Hoard in Dumfries is arguably the most significant archaeological find in Scotland in the last 100 years...
Wednesday, 22 October 2014

14th century birch bark scrolls preserved in mud tell Novgorod’s story

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A note, from father to son in 14th century Russia was etched into the bark of a birch tree and curled into a scroll. The scroll and a doz...
Monday, 13 October 2014

Treasure hunter finds Viking hoard

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A metal detector enthusiast blessed with “a magic touch” has discovered one of the most significant Viking hoards of the past century in...
Monday, 29 September 2014

Did the Vikings Get a Bum Rap?

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A Yale historian wants us to rethink the terrible tales about the Norse. This illustration shows the stereotype of Viking marauders wr...
Monday, 22 September 2014

Viking Ireland - the Videos

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In order to commemorate the 1000 th  anniversary of the Battle of Clontarf, the National Museum of Ireland have produced a superb set of...
Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Viking Blacksmith’s Grave Uncovered in Norway

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The weapons and tools from the grave The spectacular remains of what appears to be a Viking grave, most likely belonging to a blacksmit...
Friday, 1 August 2014

Viking warriors and treasures are buried beneath Dublin

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There are a great number of Viking warriors buried beneath Dublin say archaeologists. A massive research project, 15 years in the maki...
Wednesday, 30 July 2014

'Hammer of Thor' unearthed on the Danish Island

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Danish archaeologists have solved the mystery over the significance of the Mjöllnir amulets worn by the Vikings. Indeed, they represented T...
Thursday, 10 July 2014

Major Viking site discovery described as ‘mind-blowing’

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A tiny County Louth village has been confirmed as home to one of the most important Viking sites in the world. Carbon testing on trenc...
Monday, 16 June 2014

Preserving the Battle of Hastings from contamination

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The Battle of Hastings is regularly fought all over again by enthusiastic re-enactors, before large crowds of spectators. The problem is th...
Monday, 9 June 2014

VIKING AGE REVNINGE WOMAN: AN EXCEPTIONAL FIND

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A  newly discovered female figurine amulet from Revninge in the east of Denmark represents a very interesting find due to her remarkably ...
Tuesday, 3 June 2014

East Lothian skeleton may be 10th Century Irish Viking king

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Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop with part of the East Lothian skeleton which historians believe could be an Irish Viking king A skeleto...
Monday, 19 May 2014

Possible Viking settlement in the Ålands found

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According to archaeologists aerial infrared images suggest the existence of a late Iron Age settlement, possibly the largest such find ever...
Friday, 16 May 2014

The Vandals: victims of a bad press?

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Copper 42 nummi coin showing a Vandal warrior. Although it does not carry a king’s name, it is possible that this coin was made during t...
Tuesday, 13 May 2014

DORSET VIKING AGE MASS BURIAL PUBLICATION

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I n 2009 during the construction of the Weymouth Relief Road in Dorset archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology made one of the most exciti...
Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Did the Vikings Travel to Madeira?

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MADEIRA, MACARONESIA—Dates for a sample of fossilized bone from a house mouse suggest that the rodents were carried to the island of Made...

Man landing on Madeira could be four centuries prior to its colonization by the Portuguese

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According to the results, published in the  Proceedings of the Royal Society B  journal, house mice may have landed on the island before 1...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

Vikings Online Course

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Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers   12 May to 25 July 2014 Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers  is an online archaeology...

Metal detectorists unearth Viking gold

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After hours of searching through the mud with metal detectors, treasure hunters Frank Pelle and Bent Gregersen made the discovery of their ...
Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Skeletons of foetus, heavily pregnant woman and crammed men found at York church

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The foetal skeleton found at All Saints in York © Courtesy All Saints Church The bones of a foetus and its heavily pregnant mother have ...

Medieval account of Irish battle borrowed from the Iliad

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As Ireland marks the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf – portrayed as a heroic encounter between Irish and Vikings which defined the nat...

Swedes open coffin of 850 year old king

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Scientists pried open the 850-year-old casket of King Erik the Holy on Wednesday, hoping to find out more about the king, his crown, and hi...
Monday, 28 April 2014

Vikings Live: bringing our shared history to the cinema screen

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Vikings Live presenter Bettany Hughes Bettany Hughes, historian, author and broadcaster, presenter of Vikings Live from the British Mu...

Vikings Live on the horizon

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Vikings Live presenters, from left: Michael Wood, Bettany Hughes and Gareth Williams Michael Wood, historian and broadcaster, presente...

Building a Viking boat today

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Mike Selwood, Assistant Boat Manager, National Maritime Museum Cornwall In September 2013, the  National Maritime Museum Cornwall  was a...