There's no shortage of things the Vikings did that history books don't talk about ... At Gotland Island, visitors can walk the historic trail of ancient Vikings. The island has burial grounds ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... proving the sagas were not just fiction. Vikings had indeed reached the coast of ...

From the remains of five Viking ships in Denmark to the excavation of an ancient rubbish dump in Westray ... Evidence for the Vikings in Wales is sparse, but a hoard of five exquisite silver ...

Norse poetry—the “waves on the shore of the mind-sea,” as the Vikings described it—was reclaimed as some of the most carefully constructed and beautifully rendered of any ancient civilization.

Imagine Ancient Rome at its peak ... There are many details that history books decline to tell us about what the Vikings did, but we used to think that they were very far removed from the Romans.

NEIL OLIVER:Today, even over a thousand years later, people still believe the Vikings were simply dangerous ... At Jarlshof in Shetland he finds evidence of an ancient Viking settlement including ...

Renowned space archeologist Sarah Parcak takes up the case, and is on the trail of the Vikings. What she discovers just might rewrite history. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by ...

Welcome to Ireland's Ancient East, a vast playground of incredible history, compelling characters ... artistic creativity that flourished before Vikings invaders landed on Irish shores.