The National Museum of Iceland is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. You'll find the museum in downtown Reykjavik near the University of Iceland and multiple bus stops. For more information, visit the ...

Ultimately, the combination of limited interest, conflict with Indigenous groups, and logistical hurdles led the Vikings to forgo colonising North America. Their brief forays into the region serve as ...

In a village in central Denmark, archeologists made a landmark discovery that could hold important clues to the Viking era: a ...

The Vikings landed in what is now Newfoundland, Canada around the year A.D. 1000. So why didn't they colonize the region like ...

In one section of the site, archaeologists uncovered a more than 160-foot-long shipwreck, as well as two other shipwrecks of ...

Archaeologists are investigating the possibility Vikings used shortcuts over land to help them move warships and smaller ...

A hoard of 36 Viking age silver coins found by two metal detectorists in a field in the Isle of Man has been legally declared as treasure at an inquest. Many of the pieces, which date between 1000 ...

Archaeologists recently discovered the remains of more than 50 Vikings, as well as the artifacts they were buried with, in a Danish village. The ground in which the bodies were found had soil ...

Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed more than 50 “exceptionally well preserved” skeletons in a large Viking-era burial ground in the east of the country. A team from Museum Odense have ...

Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed 50 “almost intact” human bodies from a “rare” and “unusual” Viking Age burial site, Live Science reported. Experts with the Museum Odense spent ...