Now that recovery work is underway, the team has confirmed the site holds an unexpected scene: a Viking boat grave for a ...

On a remote island in northern Norway, metal detectorists stumbled upon a pair of bronze treasures. The small artifacts ...

Archaeologists in Norway have unearthed the Viking burial of a high-status woman who was buried with her dog in a boat, ...

This pendant, found in a tenth-century woman's burial in Aska, Sweden, is the only known convincing depiction of pregnancy from the Viking age. It depicts a figure in female dress with the arms ...

In the center of the boat were two skeletons. The skeleton of an ancient woman found in the Viking-era boat grave. Photo from the Arctic University Museum of Norway The larger skeleton belonged to ...

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