Archaeologist Greer Jarrett built a pilot boat and sailed for three years. He found four harbors that could have been used by ...

Viking age people who lived in what is now Norway were far more likely to be violently killed than Viking age people who lived in Denmark, a new analysis reveals. The findings were surprising to ...

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett spent three years piloting a small sailboat along the coast of Norway to understand Viking trade ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A strong wave was likely responsible for the capsizing of a Viking ship replica earlier this week off Norway's coast that killed a U.S. citizen, police said Thursday ...

Archaeologists have found the outlines of a Viking ship buried not far from the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The 65-foot-long ship was covered over more than 1,000 years ago to serve as the final ...

Using a metal detector in a field, a Norwegian man stumbled upon a number of silver pieces dating back to the Viking Age. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A new study sheds light on how Viking Age societies in Norway and Denmark differed in their experiences with violence and the role social structures played in shaping those patterns. Rates of ...

New radar data has revealed that an ancient Norwegian Viking burial ground, previously thought to be empty, actually contains the remains of a 1,200-year-old Viking ship. According to reports from ...

A metal detectorist stumbled upon a cache of Viking era armbands while exploring Engeløya, an island in Norway, he said. Street View Image from August 2022 © 2023 ...

Viking Age skeletons in Norway were much more likely to bear signs of lethal violence than those in Denmark, possibly because society in Norway was less stratified and centralized. When you ...

Rates of violence in Viking Age Norway and Denmark were long believed to be comparable. A team of researchers including University of South Florida sociologist David Jacobson challenges that ...