Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Dr Cat Jarman, a historian and archaeologist specialising in the Viking Age, reviews scenes from TV shows set in the Viking ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for reinterpretation. Over centuries, writers, politicians, and artists reshaped these ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

Archaeologists have revealed an "extraordinary and unique" collection of medieval artifacts, including a set of "Viking" combs, found during excavations in an English town. The collection, which ...

York's streets whisper tales of Vikings, Romans, and chocolate. Its history is hidden in snickleways and museums tucked ...

A genetic match to an ancient person doesn't mean you're more related genealogically. Mark Edward Atkinson/Tetra Images via Getty Images We are population geneticists who work with ancient DNA. We ...

Top Medieval Historian Rates Vikings in Movies' Dr Cat Jarman, a historian and archaeologist specialising in the Viking Age, ...