Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

Uncover the fascinating Viking-age monetary system with the analysis of a thousand-year-old iron ring from Sweden.

Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

Mysterious Gold Foils With 'Astonishing Richness of Detail' Offer Glimpse of Ancient Scandinavian Religion A sensational find in southeast Norway: five pieces of gold foil no larger than a piece of ...

In “Embers of the Hands,” historian Eleanor Barraclough digs deep into the ways that the Vikings loved, traveled and even ...

French archaeologists have discovered artifacts and sites spanning multiple centuries, from the Late Bronze Age to the ...

In a town outside Copenhagen, Denmark, metal detectorists discovered an artifact that pre-dates the Vikings. Marco Chilese ...

A dig site in Pacé, Brittany has thus far turned up artifacts from the Late Bronze Age through to the medieval era ...

Reconstruction of Iron Age helmet (top) from copper alloy fragments (above) found in the hoard. SNETTISHAM, ENGLAND—Metal ...

Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis. A volcanic eruption in 2910 B.C. may be the reason Neolithic people on a ...