A tiny object barely three centimeters tall has become the closest window we have into the appearance of the Vikings. It is a game piece carved in walrus ivory that, after more than two centuries in ...

The Vikings weren't just raiders, but farmers, traders and settlers - and they took their families with them when they moved from Scandinavia. Judith Jesch examines the role women played in the Viking ...

At first, the scientific paper seemed like scientific confirmation of a long-cherished myth about Vikings. DNA and geochemistry experts re-examined the famous Swedish grave of a high-ranking Viking ...