On a farm in the Netherlands, a metal detectorist stumbled on an intricately shaped item. His small find turned out to be an “extraordinary” fragment of a unique Viking weapon. Sander Visser swept his ...

This sword was buried with a female leader ... “you must have thought your world was ending.” In the old Viking city of Gnezdovo in Russia, an inhabitant buried these beads and silver Islamic ...

Researchers believe the drinking hall may have been used by the Norse chief Earl Sigurd — who was a powerful figure during ...

Three high-status women, though perhaps not Scandinavians themselves, were, or perhaps were not, interred there.

The island's location in the Irish Sea made it a useful hub for travellers, traders and seafarers alike and Viking items in the national collections range from fishing hooks and needles to swords ...