The hoard, dating back roughly 1,000 years, was found on the shores of the Schlei, an inlet in the Baltic Sea.

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

Found in 1986 and following a 39-year conservation project, Ireland's oldest and largest medieval book shrine is now on view.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed the remains of a 1,000-year-old Viking Age person, who was buried with a small dog at their feet. The human and the canine were buried together in an 18-foot-long R… ...

The Vikings may have earned a reputation for being fearsome warriors—but even they appear to have had a soft spot for their pets. Archaeologists in Norway recently discovered the 1,000-year-old grave ...

Ole Ginnerup Schytz, an engineer in Denmark’s sleepy Vindelev agricultural area, had used a metal detector only a handful of times when he found a bent clump of metal in a friend’s barley field. At ...

The style of the brooches indicates the grave dates to between 900 and 950, during the heart of the Viking Age. The researchers don't yet know how old the woman was when she died.

Researchers think the Viking Age boat burial of a woman and her pooch in Norway dates to between A.D. 900 and 950.

When a metal detector beeped on the Norwegian island of Senja, archaeologists suspected it may be Vikings. But they weren’t suspecting anything like this. Just 20 centimeters beneath the soil, they ...

The woman was found laid to rest in a 5.5m-long burial ship, placed roughly in the middle with the head facing north, along with a pet dog and artefacts like bronze brooches, spindle whorls, and ...