Between 2021 and 2022, teams from Arkeologerna, part of the Statens historiska museer, excavated nine sites along the E18 ...

Research is underway to learn more about the origins of medieval sword found earlier this month at the bottom of a Polish river, which some experts believe may have belonged to the Vikings. The sword ...

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

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A Norwegian man clearing his farm found a rare 1,000-year-old Viking sword carrying inscriptions that may shed more light on Nordic culture. “We were going to start sowing new grass on a field that ...

An 8-year-old Swedish girl swimming in a lake pulled out what she thought was a stick from the bottom — only to find out it was actually an ancient, pre-Viking sword. “I was outside in the water, ...

Some discoveries remind us of how much history still lies hidden, waiting to be uncovered. One such moment happened in 2022 when a museum employee diving in Poland’s Supraśl River stumbled upon a ...

A family doing construction on their house in Setesdal uncovered a 1,100-year-old sword from a pair of elaborate Viking graves, archaeologists said. Photo from the Agder County Municipality’s ...

They are Vikings for a day! Raiders from the 11th Century will sail into Owl’s Head Park in Bay Ridge for the 17th Annual Viking Fest on May 20, when three different medieval re-enactment groups will ...