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

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 ...

So begins Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Skeleton in Armor,” inspired by an actual armor-adorned Viking skeleton uncovered in 1863. It’s an evocative image, a soldier’s skeleton ...

In the shadows of York’s storied walls, an ancient Roman skeleton has revealed an astonishing secret: Scandinavian heritage predates the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons in Britain. Long before the ...

The Vikings gave shape to the hull using this "clinker" technique rather than the more conventional method of first building an inner skeleton for the hull. Discovered in Norway in 1906 ...

Just about here. Imagine that! Right here, archaeologists discovered the remains of a six-foot-tall skeleton. A typical Viking warrior. He was not a Christian. He was a pagan, believing in many gods.