This ancient sword found on an island in Denmark is incredibly well-preserved despite dating back to 1100 and 900 B.C.E.

Today a seal is checking us out in the shadow of a replica Viking longship, quite the welcome to a town that has long been a ... Lerwick has actually long been a fulcrum, linking the British Isles to ...

Thick ice sheets once depressed Earth's surface and, following their melting, it has slowly been rising. This process, known as glacial isostatic adjustment, is still observed in Scandinavia, where ...

Viking life wasn’t just tough, it was often chronically painful. For proof, all you need to do is examine their skulls. That’s what researchers at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg did with ...

I was in Scandinavia researching a story and having a coffee with an Uppsala University archaeologist, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson. She had offered to show me Birka, the site of an early Viking ...

Viking has cancelled its scheduled visits to Santorini in February due to ongoing seismic activity on the Greek island. According to a report by Arxipelagos, the Viking Star was set to visit the ...

He said: “To find comparative examples, we must look to Scandinavia. Viking age heritage in Cumbria, sometimes called ‘Anglo-Scandinavian’ culture, is well documented.” Cumbria is home to ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be a Viking-age building in a recent dig. Teams of volunteers dug up High Tarns Farm in Silloth, Cumbria, in July after crop marks indicated a ...

Inspired by Norse legends and medieval history, this series is where the farmer-turned-legendary-Viking-chief Ragnar ... their conquests across England, Scandinavia, Kievan Rus', the Mediterranean ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...