Dozens of iron rivets scattered around a farmer's field in Norway could be part of a Viking ship burial, archaeologists say. In 2015, a metal detectorist discovered three of the rivets while exploring ...

One such burial was found when amateur metal detectorists came across partially exposed bronze brooches in the dirt in Norway’s remote Senja Island in 2023. A little digging revealed rib bones ...

Archaeologists excavated the Myklebust ship mound and found a 140-year-old message in a bottle left by the site’s discoverer, photos show. Photo from the University of Bergen When researchers began ...

The grave looked, at first, like a familiar Viking Age burial: a woman laid to rest with care, surrounded by objects meant to ...

Despite being synonymous with the Viking Age, Norway currently has no Viking sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. This is why that could soon change. This week, Norway’s Directorate for Cultural ...

A 1904 photograph shows the excavation of a Viking ship burial in Oseberg, Norway. The 71-foot-long vessel dating to A.D. 834 contained the remains of two women and an abundance of extraordinary grave ...

The newly uncovered Viking-era grave in central Norway is forcing archaeologists to rethink what they thought they knew about how Norse people treated their dead. Instead of fitting neatly into ...

More than a century after Norway's Gokstad ship burial was first excavated, scientists are examining the remains of the VIking chieftain buried inside and learning the truth about how he lived and ...

2 Russians, 2 Jews, and a Puerto Rican walk into a bar ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 10th-century Viking woman in Norway who was buried in a boat grave along with her pet dog, shedding more light on special funerary rituals reserved for ...