The discovery of a Viking-age burial in Trøndelag, Norway, has presented archaeologists with a historical mystery. The astonishingly well-preserved grave yielded a woman who was buried with scallop ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A hill overlooking the Irish Sea in northwest England may hold a monumental grave containing the remains ...

The 30 Viking graves range from richly furnished to bare-bones, hinting at a burial ground for both nobles and the people they enslaved. Reading time 2 minutes Archaeologists from Denmark’s Moesgaard ...

The newly uncovered Viking-age grave in coastal Norway has stunned archaeologists, not because of its weapons or treasure, but because of a quiet, unsettling detail at the dead woman’s face. A pair of ...

The burial plots were spread over nine separate archaeological sites. Archaeologists uncovered "unusual" Viking burial plots and treasures across a number of archaeolgical sites. Large cremation sites ...

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Archaeologists recently found an artifact-filled Viking-era burial site in Denmark — revealing treasures that once belonged to an elite family. The discovery was announced by Moesgaard Museum (MOMU), ...

The discovery challenges previously held beliefs of pre-Christian burials. A ninth-century Viking woman’s grave discovered in Norway with scallop shells around her mouth. It's "a practice that is not ...

A Viking burial site from the 10th century has been excavated in central Denmark. Consisting of 30 graves, the area was uncovered by chance in the village of Lisbjerg five miles north of Aarhus, the ...

Ivarr and his brother Ubba ravaged England during the 9th Century [The British Library] A mound of earth in west Cumbria could contain a lost Viking king called Ivarr the Boneless, an archaeologist ...