German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

Marianne Hem Eriksen leads the BODY-POLITICS project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no.

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with ...

The Viking Age, spanning roughly from the late 8th to the early 11th century in Scandinavia, saw women play crucial roles in ...

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New research has revealed the horrors of the Viking age, as the study of skulls showed evidence of devastating disease and infections. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden used ...

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 ...

Archaeologists found some unique silver treasures at a Viking Age site in Sweden, then cleaned and restored the artifacts, photos show. Photo from Arkeologerna, SHM Sifting through the stony soil of ...

Archaeologists in Linköping excavated an unusual row of stones and found a Viking-era grave with weapons and fabrics, photos show. Photo from Alf Ericsson, Arkeologerna On the outskirts of a city in ...

The Anglo-Saxon Church to negotiate a way forward in a context which, at one time, would have seemed disastrous.