Among the macabre discoveries was a child’s skull planted between the floors, which people walked over for years.

Fragmented bones and skull pieces found in hearths, beneath floors and in other domestic settings in early Scandinavian ...

Archaeology students from the University of Cambridge have uncovered a Viking-era mass grave at Wandlebury Country Park in Cambridgeshire, with the remains of at least 10 individuals packed into a ...

A study of nearly 200 individuals buried in domestic contexts in ancient and Viking Age Scandinavia has revealed unusually high levels of violence.

Instead, in April this year they found the largest Viking Age coin hoard ever discovered in Norway, which Science Norway has ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in ...

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New research into a remarkable Viking-Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire, led by Dr. Jane Kershaw, Associate Professor of Viking Age Archaeology, School of Archaeology, has shed light on ...

An intricately carved head made of red sandstone has been found on one of Scotland’s Orkney islands. Featuring a broken nose, closed eyes and wavy hair, the artifact was unearthed during a dig at the ...

Once the capital of a Norse kingdom, this walled northern city is now home to an immersive Viking history museum, archaeological sites and street names that still echo its Scandinavian roots. Few ...

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