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

In a nutshell An ancient Viking ring inscription, previously thought to require payment of fines in both oxen AND silver, ...

During their prime, the Vikings mastered the seas and went on to make wide-spanning voyages by boat. But how exactly did they know where they were going? A recent study, focused on a set of medieval ...

Vikings had indeed reached the coast of America five centuries before Columbus. Now those medieval sagas look ready ... will shed more light on the early history of European exploration of North ...

The researchers describe the sort of bleak dental picture common to medieval Europe—frequent tooth decay, infections and tooth loss. In the Viking population studied, 49% had one or more ...

A full scale replica of the 9th century Viking longship (photo credit: Lenka Adamcikova. Via Shutterstock) A new study suggests that medieval stone discs found in Ukraine were likely used by ...