“For this next part, everyone is going to need an axe.” One at a time, 12 undergraduate students chose a blade from the toolbox in a studio at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, a city about ...

A new study reported in the journal Cell on January 5 captures a genetic history across Scandinavia over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. This look back at Scandinavian history is ...

You can watch history come alive just outside the State Fair Center at Høstfest as Vikings clash in battle reenactments, and tools of the time are exhibited.

The Jelling stones are large carved runestones from the 10th century. From the year 800 to 1050, what we now know as Denmark played a central role as a home base for Viking expeditions far and wide.

For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the “Oseberg,” ...

AASUM, Denmark (AP) - In a village in central Denmark, archeologists made a landmark discovery that could hold important clues to the Viking era: a burial ground, containing some 50 “exceptionally ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract During the Viking Age, Arctic Scandinavia was a source of exquisite furs, down, walrus ivory, and other commodities that met with high demand ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

The art of the Viking Age, for all its power and beauty ... forever changing the course of Scandinavian history. His public works, including massive ringforts and bridges, were legendary. And the ...

Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration across Europe created an elaborate genetic puzzle that ...