The Scottish border town beloved by elopers witnessed three consecutive promotions to the top flight and UEFA Cup qualification, but by 2008 the Anvils suffered the early death of their benefactor, ...

These are some of the realities uncovered by the first interdisciplinary study to focus on pregnancy in the Viking age, authored by myself, Kate Olley, Brad Marshall and Emma Tollefsen as part of ...

Pregnancy has perhaps been particularly overlooked in periods we mostly associate with warriors, kings and battles—such as the highly romanticized Viking age (the period from AD 800 until AD 1050).

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 ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A VIKING age hall believed to be the largest of its kind ever discovered in Britain has been uncovered during an archaeological dig at High ...

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 ...

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 ...

The extent of their raids had a resounding genetic impact throughout much of Europe, as researchers found that many people outside of Scandinavia during the Viking Age had a mix of local and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.