The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are revealing ...

Researchers think the Viking Age boat burial of a woman and her pooch in Norway dates to between A.D. 900 and 950.

When a metal detector beeped on the Norwegian island of Senja, archaeologists suspected it may be Vikings. But they weren’t ...

Have you ever stared out your window as icy marbles pelted your backyard and wondered if there’s more to hail than just ...

Universal's live-action How To Train Your Dragon remake has now taken flight in a number of key regions, and the ...

Now that recovery work is underway, the team has confirmed the site holds an unexpected scene: a Viking boat grave for ... well-suited for preserving ancient bodies and archeological items.

The first reviews for How to Train Your Dragon have landed, and while it sounds like the movie has retained much of the animated version's charm, critics bemoan another unnecessary live-action remake.

Filmmaker Dean DeBlois returns to the world of “How to Train Your Dragon” for a new live-action adaptation, in theaters Friday. The film stars Mason Thames as the teenage Viking boy Hiccup, ...

These were not passive bodies. Together with recent studies of Viking women buried as warriors, this provokes further thought to how we envisage gender roles in the oft-perceived hyper-masculine ...

Viking men and women of all classes wore jewelry, including necklaces, brooches and arm rings (also known as armlets). Powerful men commonly gave armlets to their followers to both secure loyalty ...

The jewelry she was buried with ... After learning about the ancient Scythian Amazon warrior women being uncovered in Russia, read about the Slavic warrior woman buried with weaponry in a Danish ...

Notably absent were items of jewelry that researchers had long associated with Viking women, including brooches ... investigative techniques such as ancient DNA sequencing and isotopic analysis ...