Thursday, 26 April 2018

Swedish Archaeologists Uncover Brutal 5th-Century Massacre

›
Excavations from an Iron Age fort in modern-day Sweden revealed brutalized human remains and other macabre traces of a massacre that stop...

Swedish archaeologists reveal 5th Century massacre at Sandby borg

›
Team member Clara Alfsdotter arranges the remains of one victim Swedish archaeologists have found evidence of a 5th century massacre on...
Monday, 23 April 2018

Skeletons of first Copenhageners discovered under City Hall Square

›
Secret dig yields startling find (photo: Copenhagen Museum) Since December, a team of archaeologists from the Museum of Copenhagen have...

Archaeologists may have found Copenhagen’s oldest church

›
The City Hall Square excavation site has yielded some interesting results  (photo: Museum of Copenhagen) When it emerged in February ...
Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Archaeologists find silver treasure on German Baltic island

›
The April 13, 2018 photo shows medieval Saxonian, Ottoman, Danish and Byzantine coins after a medieval silver treasure had been found nea...
Tuesday, 17 April 2018

Uncovering the Galloway Viking Hoard, layer by layer

›
A bird brooch from the Galloway Hoard. ®National Museums Scotland Hold on to your Viking helmet; you’re about to dig, layer by layer, i...

Slavs competed with the Vikings on these boats

›
Specialists from the National Maritime Museum in Tczew began the reconstruction of the 12th-century Slavic boat salvaged from the botto...

Germans find 'Harald Bluetooth' medieval treasure

›
Harald Bluetooth might have buried the treasure while fleeing from enemies Treasure linked to the reign of 10th Century Danish King Har...
Monday, 16 April 2018

Computer simulations show Viking's sunstone to be very accurate

›
The "Lofotr" viking ship and the smaller "femkeiping". Both recosntructions based on excavations from the Gokstad fin...

Boy unearths treasure of the Danish king Bluetooth in Germany

›
Discovery by a 13-year-old and an amateur archaeologist leads to hoard linked to king who brought Christianity to Denmark Part of the h...
Tuesday, 27 March 2018

An Icelandic Epic Predicted a Fiery End for Pagan Gods, and Then This Volcano Erupted

›
The Codex Regius, an Icelandic collection of poems about pagan gods, contains  a version of the Vǫluspá. Credit: Werner Forman/Univer...
Monday, 19 March 2018

Viking expert certain Norse seafarers visited Miramichi, Chaleur Bay

›
Birgitta Wallace, senior archaeologist emerita with Parks Canada, says she believes Vikings had summer camps in New Brunswick's Miram...

Archaeologists Closer to Finding Lost Viking Settlement

›
The only known Viking site in North America is located at L'anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. It was declared a World Heritage site. ...
Thursday, 8 February 2018

Mass grave of Viking army contained slaughtered children to help dead reach afterlife, experts believe

›
The grave of the four youngsters who may have been killed in a burial ritual   CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL  A mass grave of Viking ...
Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Viking imported finds discovered in cemetery works

›
EXPANSION WORKS OF BYNESET CEMETERY AT STEINE CHURCH IN TRONDHEIM, NORWAY HAS LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF AN IMPORTED CLASP OR BROOCH DATING ...
Monday, 5 February 2018

Radiocarbon dating reveals mass grave did date to the Viking age

›
A team of archaeologists, led by Cat Jarman from the University of Bristol's Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, has discovered ...

This Mass Grave May Belong to 'Great Viking Army'

›
Bones are yielding new clues about the massive, mysterious Viking forces that invaded England. A photo taken at a 1982 excavation of th...
Sunday, 4 February 2018

Midlands mass grave was burial site for Viking 'Great Heathen Army' war dead, new study reveals

›
The powerful Norse army was sent to invade the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that constituted England in 865 AD. One of the female skulls e...

Melting Glaciers Could Reveal How Our Ancestors Dealt With Changing Climates

›
While some archaeologists dig with trowels and shovels, others use a warming planet to their advantage. Archaeologist holding a c. 1...
Friday, 2 February 2018

Bones clue to 'lost' Viking army which made England

›
The mass grave was first excavated in the 1970s and 80s Martin Biddle A lost Viking army which was a "key part" of the crea...
Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Unique Viking runes discovered in Denmark

›
Runologist and senior researcher Lisbeth Imer takes a closer look at the newly discovered runes.   (Video: Kristian Højgaard Nielsen) ...

Viking-Era Stone Carved with Runes Found in Norway

›
This whetstone (a stone used for sharpening knives) has letters known as runes engraved on it, archaeologists found. Discovered recently ...
Sunday, 21 January 2018

Bronze Age Arrows and a Viking Sword – The 2017 Fieldwork Was Awesome!

›
The Storfonne ice patch, photographed in September 2014 during a major melt. Notice the light grey lichen-free zone surrounding the ice. ...
Monday, 15 January 2018

Viking centre discovered in Cork city predates Waterford settlement

›
The latest discoveries at the South Main Street site confirm Cork’s significance in the Hiberno-Norse world, archaeologist says Cork wa...
Wednesday, 6 December 2017

The Viking Spear from the Lendbreen Ice Patch

›
The Lendbreen ice patch, September 1974. Young student Per Dagsgard from Skjåk was visiting the ice patch to search for remains from anci...
Monday, 27 November 2017

Denmark’s first Viking king printed in 3D

›
Gorm the Old’s bones are printed in a range of colours (Photo: Marie Louise Jørkov) For the first time ever, bones from the famous Dani...

Archaeologists uncover ancient Viking camp from the 870s in village of Repton

›
University of Bristol students excavated a Viking camp dating to a winter in the 870s (PA) A Viking camp that dates back to the 870s ha...

New Research on Viking Army Camp at Repton

›
(Courtesy Cat Jarman) Archaeologists have turned up new evidence about a ninth-century Viking overwintering camp in the Derbyshire vill...
Tuesday, 7 November 2017

When the Gloves Come Off – Why We Do Not Use Gloves to Handle Artifacts in the Field

›
Ever since we started publishing pictures of our crew holding artifacts without using gloves, we have taken some heat in the Facebook com...
Sunday, 22 October 2017

Haggis originally brought to Scotland by Vikings, an award winning Scottish butcher argues

›
ICELANDIC “SLÁTUR” A Scottish butcher argues the Scottish national dish, Haggis, was originally brought to Scotland by Vikings, making it...

Scotland's national dish is an 'imposter' and was invented by Vikings, claims master butcher

›
Scotland’s famous national dish is an ‘imposter’ and has been faking it as native for centuries, says an award-winning butcher Scotla...
Wednesday, 18 October 2017

The small piece of silver was found at a Viking fortress in Køge, Denmark.

›
The box brooch on the left was found in a grave at Fyrkat, Denmark. The silver fitting discovered at Borgring, on the right, is almost id...

Possible Missing Jewelry Box Piece Found at Viking Fortress

›
Nationalmuseet/Museum Sydøstanmark KØGE, DENMARK—A small silver artifact has been uncovered at Borgring, a Viking fortress in eastern ...
Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Norway calls on Ireland to help recover ‘irreplaceable’ Viking artifacts

›
© University Museum of Bergen / Facebook A museum in Norway has appealed for help from its counterparts in Ireland after 400 Viking art...

Viking textile did not feature word 'Allah', expert says

›
Medieval Islamic art and archaeology professor Stephennie Mulder disputes the findings, saying the inscription has 'no Arabic at all...
Monday, 16 October 2017

Why did Vikings have 'Allah' embroidered into funeral clothes?

›
One of the excavated fragments made from fine silk and silver thread discovered at the two Swedish sites, Birka and Gamla Uppsala Resea...

Ancient Viking burial fabrics found to have name of Allah woven into them

›
What was previously thought to be typical Viking Age patterns in silver have now proven to be geometric Kufic characters. The Uppsala Univer...

‘Allah’ Is Found on Viking Funeral Clothes

›
A reconstructed Viking boat grave from the Gamla Uppsala archaeological site in Sweden is part of a Viking couture exhibition at the Enko...

UK’s north-south divide dates back to Vikings, says archaeologist

›
A division 1,000 years in the making? Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian The north-south divide has been the butt of jokes in ...
Friday, 6 October 2017

Viking Fort Reveals Secrets of Danish King's Elaborate Military Network

›
Archaeologists are uncovering the mysteries of a Viking-age fortress at Borgring, on the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark, which is t...

Possible evidence of Norse parliament site near Thurso

›
Thing's Va Broch near Thurso in Caithness Possible evidence of a medieval Norse parliament meeting place may have been found at an...