The amount of Islamic silver that found its way into Scandinavia attests to the portability of money in the ancient world. In 1844 a farmer discovered a large trove of silver in a field. A Viking ...

A Viking woman found in Norway with scallop shells over her mouth leaves experts puzzled about the meaning behind this burial ...

Roy Søreng, a local metal detectorist, found a Viking Age brooch in Norwegian soil. When he called archaeologists to the site ...

Archaeologists in Norway found a 1,200-year-old Viking woman's grave with mysterious scallop shells over her mouth. Discover ...

If I travel to another country, I’ll generally need to make a currency exchange before I can go shopping. However, in ancient ...

Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

A ninth-century grave discovered in Norway held the remains of a Viking Age woman whose mouth was covered with two large scallop shells.

Sure, here is the revised description without any links or additional text related to them: Pendant | Viking weaving | Stones ...

Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears have produced this season yet another example of how good things can indeed come in the ...

Man found a Viking hoard using a metal detector with hacksilver, scrap silver used as bullion for weight trade, alongside cut coin fragments.

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

WARE, England — A small bird fluttered into Kevin O’Connell’s hotel room early Tuesday. Such is life here at the Hanbury Manor hotel in the English countryside north of London. “It didn’t understand ...