Thousands of people are set to descend on York as Europe’s largest Viking festival, the JORVIK Viking Festival, returns to the city.

A new display showcases the "extraordinary" Viking and Bronze Age treasures unearthed on the Isle of Man over the past 200 ...

Thousands of people are set to descend on York as Europe’s largest Viking festival, the JORVIK Viking Festival, returns to ...

Overall, the study tells us that by 1021 CE, the Vikings were already in North America. They could have been there earlier, ...

Greg Jenner is joined in medieval Scandinavia by historian Dr Eleanor Barraclough and comedian Chloe Petts to learn about the ...

Carvings uncovered in the Canadian Arctic may be the earliest portraits of the Vikings created in the Americas. But archaeologists have been puzzling over whether the artwork really shows the infamous ...

It’s now confirmed that Norse Vikings, known for their seafaring prowess, reached North America a millennium ago, establishing the first known European settlement at Anse aux Meadows. This revelation, ...

Spooky-looking wooden figurines with quartzite eyes are 2,600 years old and may be linked to a Norse god. This set of carved figurines was discovered in the parish of Roos, on England's east coast.

A Yup'ik community near the Bering Sea in southwest Alaska was spared the widespread devastation other communities ...

The JORVIK Viking Centre in York will once again transform its AD960 Coppergate street scene into a snowy spectacle.

A new exhibition at the House of Manannan is set to highlight the Isle of Man’s archaeological legacy through a display of ...

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