In an accidental find, a 10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in ...

Archaeologists unearthed the burial site during excavations in Norway. They say the discovery provides unique insights into ...

As Arjen Spießwinkel searched along the banks of the Schlei River in northern Germany with his metal detector, he uncovered a ...

Archaeologists digging in northern Denmark have uncovered a Viking burial site brimming with rare treasures, shedding new ...

Instead, the hole turned out to be a 1,600-year-old wooden well, officials said. Excavations uncovered a section of wooden pipe built from three tree trunks and measuring over 3 feet across as well as ...

Ole Ginnerup Schytz, an engineer in Denmark’s sleepy Vindelev agricultural area, had used a metal detector only a handful of ...

The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are revealing ...

Measurement standards underlie most fields of science – without them, researchers couldn’t compare the results of different ...

In an accidental find, a 10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in northern Denmark, packed with a "spectacular" trove of ancient objects, a ...

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

Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city, calls itself the "World's Smallest Big City." I'd argue it's more like the world's ...

The Geauga County Historical Society launched a new program this year to give children ages 5-7 a taste of 19th century life.