New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

From the remains of five Viking ships in Denmark to the excavation of an ancient rubbish dump in Westray ... Displays tell the history of the islands over the past 5,000 years with exhibits ...

A must-visit for Viking Age enthusiasts, the Stavanger region's Norse legacy is celebrated in monuments, museums, and a modern VR experience.

For anyone who romanticizes life in the Viking ... history, when the region was moving from traditional Norse beliefs toward Christianity. Varnhem is known for its thousands of ancient graves ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

local history dates back more than a millennia. In Graham’s estimation, the structure that once stood on the site of High Tarns Farm was, in fact, a “large hall of the late-Viking age.” ...

However, a recent study has deciphered a new translation of the stone, one the researchers believe alludes to a Viking fear very recognisable to us today - their own climate crisis. Video by Maddy ...

Archeologists in Denmark have made one of the most notable discoveries in recent history: a group of 50 skeletons found in a burial ground, believed to be from the Viking Era. The skeletal remains ...