Solving one of Viking Age Britain’s greatest mysteries. David Keys considers a discovery that sheds fresh light on gold, silver, sacred relics and fear in the medieval era ...

A Viking Mystery Beneath Oxford University, archaeologists have uncovered a medieval city that altered the course of English history ...

In short, aside from ignoring the taboo against treating monks and priests specially, the Vikings acted not much differently from other European warriors of the period, Winroth argues.

A set of medieval skeletons have given a fascinating glimpse into the everyday lives of people in the Viking Age. For a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of researchers examined ...

But there is evidence of body modification. Archaeologists in the 1980s noted "strange marks" on the teeth of male Viking Age skulls that looked like the teeth had been deliberately filed.Some 130 ...

They were produced during the Viking Age, a period in medieval history between roughly the late 8th and 11th centuries, when the Vikings—a Scandinavian seafaring people—raided, ...

Although additional investigations are needed to confirm the role of the pyrophyllite disks, the researchers say it is possible that Vikings who traveled through what is now Russia and Ukraine during ...

Medieval murder: Records suggest vengeful noblewoman had priest assassinated in 688-year-old cold case by University of Cambridge edited by Sadie Harley , reviewed by Robert Egan ...