When the Vikings sailed west to England more than a millennium ago, they brought their animal companions with them and even cremated their bodies alongside human ones in a blazing pyre before burying ...

LONDON, Aug 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Vikings were known for brutality and chauvinism as they pillaged their way across Europe, but a new book has claimed that some of the Nordic warriors ...

The Vikings explored, raided and traded across a vast area stretching from North America to the Middle East between roughly the late eighth and mid-11th centuries. In Old Norse, the language the ...

Join archaeologists examining the history-changing DNA of a female Viking warrior. Join a team of archaeologists as they examine one of the most significant Viking graves ever found and test the DNA ...

In 1878, archaeologist Hjalmar Stolpe uncovered a grave containing a large number of weapons and the skeletal remains of what seemed to be a great Viking warrior. For a century, people assumed the ...

Archaeologists conducting excavations in Vinjeøra, Norway, recently uncovered a group of ninth- or tenth-century Viking graves—including one whose unusual layout suggests it may contain the cremated ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A year after giving fans an oft-requested throwback uniform, the Minnesota Vikings have unveiled another long-awaited alternate getup. The "Winter Warrior" uniforms revealed Thursday ...

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