Uncover the fascinating Viking-age monetary system with the analysis of a thousand-year-old iron ring from Sweden.

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

Viking offers extremes 87-day Arctic to Antarctica voyage, from Nuuk, Greenland to Ushuaia, Argentina, with prices starting ...

The detectorists discovered the £3 million Viking hoard near farmland, but failed to report the find - giving the landowner ...

Police are hunting for a man who discovered and pocketed an incredible trove of Viking gold worth £300 million ... a ninth-century gold ring, a dragon's head bracelet, and other bits of jewellery ...

Vikings did not wear much armour. Some chieftains wore mail coats, made of thousands of metal rings but most relied on a round wooden shield for protection since these were very expensive.

The researchers suggest that this could mean concentric rings were not present in early Viking solar compasses, but developed in later versions. All of the disks were also similar sizes — the ...

SCIENTISTS have finally cracked the ancient mystery of 1,400-year-old "alien rings" rising from the hills which were fuelling a tirade of conspiracy theories. Locals had been puzzled by the series ...