Follow ancient Viking routes on a modern Viking cruise through Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Norway's dramatic fjords. ... Today, it’s home to one of the largest fisheries in Iceland.

Archaeologists in Denmark recently uncovered 30 Viking graves—a remarkable find on its own. The bigger surprise? The graves ...

A man in Setesdal, Norway recently unearthed an 1,100-year-old Viking warrior’s grave while digging in his yard to build an extension on his home. “I wasn’t going to dig a lot, just a little ...

With that description, the Vikings entered the annals of medieval history as merciless raiders, having also killed a local official in southern Great Britain in 789.

The ancient chronicles told of a larger-than-life Viking warrior with a shock of red hair, banished from his home for killing another man, who sailed with hundreds of followers to an icy island in ...

All in all, Viking camps were by no means dormant or disorganized and doubled as command posts, armories, treasuries, granaries, prisons, workshops, markets, harbors, and homes.

A recent study of ancient DNA sheds light on who the Viking groups were and how they interacted with the people they met. The Viking Age, from around 750 to 1100 CE, left a cultural and economic ...

Vestfold has yielded a number of Viking treasures and is home to three European ship burials. Borre Park hosts numerous burial mounds dating back to the Viking age (800-1050) and earlier.

A conservationist in Ukraine discovered an ancient cave complex with Viking carvings behind an abandoned house. Dmytro Perov, a conservationist at the Center for Urban Development in Kyiv, grew up ...

An ancient cave complex containing Viking carvings from the early Kyivan Rus time was discovered behind an abandoned house in central Kyiv. Photo from Dmytro Perov A conservationist in Ukraine ...