The ancient runes of an inscribed silver armband found in a buried Viking treasure hoard in Scotland are helping to reveal more ... “It’s part of this international trade network that the Viking age ...

As I gazed down at the paper, I felt the solid walls of the train station slip away and the Viking age suddenly reach out to me. The engraving, rendered in almost photographic detail, portrayed a ...

National Museums Scotland The Galloway Hoard is considered the “richest collection” of Viking-age artifacts ever found in Britain or Ireland, according to the museums, and teaches historians ...

The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than 11lbs ... However researchers at National Museums Scotland (NMS) who have been studying the hoard have proposed a new translation for the fourth ...

president of Clan MacLeod Society of Scotland. But he hopes one day it might be possible to do some scientific analysis to better understand its age and where it came from. Until then, the flag is ...

Archaeologists in Sweden dug up 139 Viking Age graves when excavating a Stone Age settlement. Along with human and animal remains, the team found three large ship-forming stone settings and a ship ...

Experts hope to conduct DNA analyses and possibly reconstruct detailed life histories, as well as looking into social patterns in Viking Age, such as kinship, migration patterns and more.

A burial ground containing 50 "exceptionally well-preserved" skeletons from the Viking Age has been discovered in Denmark. The 21,500sq ft site was found during a routine survey ahead of ...

where more Viking Age silver has been discovered per square kilometer than in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales," Allison Fox, Manx National Heritage's curator for archaeology, said in the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Museum Odense An extraordinary Viking burial ground with the almost-complete ...