Two British metal detectorists face jail time after finding a $3.8 million Viking treasure and failing to report it to ...

A massive 1,100-year-old graveyard leads to a surprising new view of the Nordic legacy in Britain St. Wystan’s church in Repton. In 873-874, a Viking army is believed to have entrenched in the ...

Two Viking era stone grave markers thought to be 1,000 years old have been put on display in a church in the north of the Isle of Man. The carved monuments, known as the Manx crosses, were revealed ...

The first few months of 793 was a worrying time for the north of England. Great portents of impending disaster were seen ...

An investigation into Viking skeletons reveals a hidden story of violence, power, and the surprising differences between ...

On the Wednesday following the last Tuesday in January, Shetland shuts down. It is the only place in Scotland to have an ...

Dublin, one of the largest Viking cities in the British Isles, became a major European ... This one held the skeletons of 54 well-built, fighting-age males, all of whom had been decapitated ...

Netflix has just dropped all six seasons of a highly-rated historical drama on its platform, and fans are over the moon, ...

Indeed, the raiding and trading Vikings left their traces across Northern Europe and beyond, and the Scandinavian emigration of the ninth and tenth centuries left noticeable imprints on adjacent ...

21, 2025 — Sweden's Viking Age population appears to have ... that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife's community.

Kristina Killgrove is a staff writer at Live Science with a focus on archaeology and paleoanthropology news. Her articles have also appeared in venues such as Forbes, Smithsonian, and Mental Floss.