Tusker Rock, an island in the Bristol Channel just off the coast at Ogmore-by-Sea, took its name from Tuska, a Danish Viking ...

In Viking Age mass graves in Britain ... analysis method that would provide a sharper lens for fine-scale genetic history. Questions that wouldn't have been possible to answer before are now ...

EMBERS OF THE HANDS: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, by Eleanor Barraclough Vikings are one of history’s great cases of false advertising. The people we call Vikings mostly weren’t Vikings.

The researchers examined over 1500 European genomes from people who lived during the first millennium, an eventful period in European history ... of the Iron Age in Scandinavia, which ended about 800 ...

The Viking Age (c. 800–1050 CE) is famous for its raids and settlements ... offering new insights into the dynamic movements that shaped Europe’s history. Peter Heather, a co-author and medieval ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... of research hinting at the cosmopolitan nature of Viking Age trade, including recent studies revealing extensive ...

Initially discovered by a group of amateur metal detectorists in the fall of 2023, the graves date to between 800 and 850 C.E. That lines up with the beginning of the Viking Age, which ran from ...

Likewise, researchers found a “clear shift” in genetic ancestry in 8th century Denmark in which Viking communities had genetic links to Iron Age groups ... of medieval history at King ...