An attentive passerby noticed something in a wetland in Sweden and picked up a rusty brown loop. The item turned out to be a rare Viking artifact. The finder, who chose to remain anonymous, visited a ...

who regularly uncover Viking treasures and artifacts, hoping to learn more about these people and the people they came into contact with, or pillaged in most cases. Just last year, for example ...

From ancient Roman structures under homes to Viking jewelry in a wetland, here are some of the latest archaeological discoveries.

“I thought it just can’t be,” Sutherland says, so she expanded her museum search and discovered a trove of Viking artifacts, from whetstones for sharpening metal knives to tally sticks for ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

It turned out to be a Viking lead weight. These artefacts suggested Scandinavian links, and there was a further clue. Grains of sand found in the caulking used to seal the boat are unlike any ...

Last year, the discovery of an ax head on a mountaintop overlooking Norway’s Trondheim Fjord led archaeologists to a tenth-century Viking grave. Though they found no remains, the team recovered ...

Researchers excavated the pieces and as they dug deeper into the pile, they found more than 10 pounds of artifacts carefully buried in a hoard. The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age.

ALEXANDRIA — The hosts of a forthcoming television documentary series will be in Alexandria this week. Johann Sigurdson and David Collette, members of the famed Explorers Club and hosts of "West ...