With Livorno's historic Fortezza Vecchia fortress serving as a backdrop, the ship's godmother, retired NASA astronaut Anna Fisher, used a Viking axe to slice a large red ribbon that triggered the ...

drawing in the ruthless Kings of other Scandinavian countries, and even a powerful English ruler, the stage is set for a thundering, cataclysmic, compelling and utterly magical new Viking Saga.” ...

Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in Iceland have unearthed the country's oldest known drawing: a scratched-out piece of "Viking graffiti" that looks like a partly drawn boat. The researchers ...

Antiquity Publications Ltd./drawing by Tancredi Valeri In 1878, archaeologists excavating the Viking town of Birka ... the tomb—specifically, a sword, axe, fighting knife, lances, shields ...

THE Viking ‘berserker’ warrior has long been considered a myth — but the discovery of an enormous battle-axe at a burial site in Denmark suggests otherwise. Like the iconic horns on their ...

THE AGE of a “Viking axe” found near Pershore has been revealed. Metal detectorist Stephen Grey discovered the striking object in a field in Drakes Broughton last year. After being sent to ...