Warriors often chopped plunder into ... after the color of her hair—led a fleet of Viking ships to Ireland in the 10th century. Bioarchaeologist Anna Kjellström of Stockholm University recently ...

Silver was the Vikings’ treasure of choice. Their affinity for the metal gives discoveries of silver artifacts significant ...

More than a century later, several osteologists concluded—and genetic analysis confirmed—that this Viking warrior was actually female. When these results were reported in 2017, skeptics ...

In 2016, archaeologists in Denmark uncovered one of the largest Viking axes ever found in the region. It was buried in the ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America. 5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 ...

By the 10th century ... to the samurai's lineage—so much so that warriors would recite their ancestry on the battlefield. By the 11th century, powerful military clans had begun vying for ...

In his human life, Mikael was a Viking warrior in the 10th century, which grants him exceptional strength as a vampire, allowing him to physically overpower his children—until Klaus, as a hybrid ...

Although there are records of currency from other parts of the World in Ireland during the 10th century, the very first Irish coins were created around 997AD by order of the Viking leader Silkbeard.

The research team uncovered the treasure while examining a field in Årdal, Norway ahead of the construction of a new road.

This is an elaborate and rare form of 9th or 10th century Viking gold ring ... kings gave gold rings to their warriors and court poets as rewards for service. Gold rings were regarded as the ...

Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 14 September) is The Northman, one of the greatest action movies of the decade so ...

On its 1999 release, this historical action film starring Antonio Banderas as an Arab warrior was a big flop ... the story of Ahmad ibn Fadlan, a 10th Century Arab diplomat exiled from Baghdad ...