Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Lesson No. 1: Viking warriors didn’t wear horned helmets. “Viking helmets with horns ...

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can now show that the Vikings sailed farther away from Scandinavia, and took ...

Mobility shaped the human world profoundly long before the modern age. But archaeologists often struggle to create a timeline for the speed and impact of this mobility. An interdisciplinary team of ...

More than a millennium ago, people in the Viking Age city of Haithabu dined on a dish of freeze-dried cod and tossed the bones aside. It was a relatively unremarkable meal, except for one thing. The ...

Sean Mowbray is a freelance journalist based in Scotland who covers topics such as health, archaeology, and general science for Discover Magazine. View Full Profile. You may think of Vikings as ...

York, once known as Jorvik, was a thriving Viking hub that connected Europe, Asia, and Africa through trade and governance. Exotic goods like silk and silver flowed into its markets, but so did ...