An excavation of three Viking graves in Norway reveals beads, coin jewelry and a stone carved to look like female genitalia.

Excavations revealed the graves of three highly respected and wealthy Viking women from the early ninth century.

This would help explain why the women buried there possessed valuable costume jewelry, including glass beads, silver coins, ...

Most people associate the Viking Age with raids, plundering, and the famous Norwegian Viking ships. But for farmers to become ...

The message, placed by the Norwegian archaeologist Anders Lorange in 1874, offers an extraordinary insight into the Viking ...

Researchers identified that at least three of these remains belonged to women, accompanied by what they described as a “small treasure trove” of jewellery, including glass beads, silver coins, and a ...

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On a small rocky knoll on the west coast of Norway, archaeologists have uncovered a rich burial ground from the Viking Age.

The manner in which the war equipment was buried suggests it was an offering to higher powers, a strange yet well-documented ...

Mars isn’t just a cold, barren rock. Anthropologists argue that the tracks of rovers and broken probes are archaeological ...

as noted by Archaeology Magazine. Historical accounts such as the Færeyinga Saga name a Viking chieftain, Grímur Kamban, as the leader of the colonization. However, the exact origin of Grímur ...