The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.

Ulf of Borresta wasn’t just a warrior—he was a master of the sacred runes. His raids shaped kingdoms, and his carvings ...

Following a $50m revamp of the Pyramids and the opening of the GEM Museum, now is the ideal time to take to the Nile, as Bella Falk discovers on a 12-day cruise from Cairo to Aswan ...

The first cohort of Eyemouth's traditional skills students will start their training in January. An introductory 20-week course has been devised with a programme of repointing - a process of removing ...

Vikings in history and popular culture are known as strong and dangerous, bloodthirsty killers, raiders, pillagers – pirates of land and sea. But who were the Vikings, and what were the causes of ...

Situated near Sarpsborg, Norway, the enigmatic Bjørnstad ship is a fantastic glimpse into the prehistoric, pre-Viking age of Scandinavia. Such ancient carvings are few, and often hard to discover - ...

It took 10 years of work to prepare a Viking longship for a trip no longer than a football field. How it got to that spot goes back even further — over a millennium. The Oseberg longship – considered ...

The Oseberg longship – considered one of the most important historical discoveries of the Viking age — voyaged to its final destination last month. But the journey it took to get there was complicated ...