Hidden in the Icelandic countryside lies a long-forgotten hobbit house, built in the ancient Viking turf style. Abandoned and ...

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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.

For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the “Oseberg,” “Gokstad” and “Tune”—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo ...

Weddings are one of the oldest time-honored traditions. Even though such a celebration is a common part of our modern lives, ancient cultures also acknowledged and gathered for the joining of two ...

After ancient artifacts are discovered, where do they go? Aside from a minority of pieces sitting in personal collections or artifacts being studied in the lab, many items make their way from a buried ...