A team of archaeologists in Denmark just stumbled upon a Viking hall from the late ninth century C.E. — and they think it may have been built by the king whose name graces today's wireless technology.

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can now show that the Vikings sailed farther away from Scandinavia and took ...

The study also hinted at the grim reality of life for many newborn infants arriving into the world during the Viking Age.

While they could not definitively confirm the house dated to the Viking Age — which spanned from 800 to 1050 A.D. — there were several clues that pointed to this being the case. For example ...

An Icelandic museum happens to stand where a Viking clan settled 1,000 years ago. Scott S. Warren "By dumb luck," says UCLA's John Steinberg (above), he unearthed a house that may have been built ...

Swedish archaeologists recently found an "unusual" Viking-era coffin dating back over 1,100 years. The discovery was announced by Arkeologerna, an archaeological organization affiliated with the ...

This tapestry also contains one of the only known depictions of a horned Viking helmet.

Pregnancy has perhaps been particularly overlooked in periods we mostly associate with warriors, kings and battles – such as the highly romanticised Viking age (the period from AD800 until AD1050).

What were Viking villages like? The Vikings and their families mostly lived in small villages that were near the coast. Despite their reputation as brave warriors and terrifying raiders ...

Astoundingly, a veritable flotilla of sunken Viking vessels turned up on the grounds of the very museum being built to house other Viking boats. The modern phase of Viking ship investigation began ...