Friday, May 19, 2023

A Centuries-Old Mystery: Did This Elusive Viking City Exist?

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A recreated “Slavs and Viking” settlement, with medieval craft demonstrations, re-enactments and guided tours in Wolin, Poland.Credit...Serg...
Monday, May 08, 2023

Viking Burial Goods: 10 Exotic Items the Vikings Took to Valhalla

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According to The Saga of the Ynglings, Odin ordered mortal Vikings to bury the dead accordingly: “He decreed that the dead were all to be cr...

Is There Something Fishy About Radiocarbon Dating?

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A map of the route taken by the Viking Great Heathen Army. Hel-hama, own work, via Wikipedia The Vikings started out as raiders, but then, i...
Thursday, May 04, 2023

Seemingly 'empty' burial mound is hiding a 1,200-year-old Viking ship

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The ship-shaped signals from ground-penetrating radar were detected in 2022 during excavations of burial mounds on the island of Karmøy, in ...

20-METRE-LONG VIKING SHIP FOUND IN NORWAY

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Image Credit : Eva Gjerde - Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE DISCOVERED A 20-METRE-LONG VIKING SHIP DURING...

Rare, 1,000-year-old Viking Age iron hoard found in basement in Norway

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The Viking hoard consists of 32 iron ingots, which are all pierced with a hole on one end and may have been grouped together in a bundle. (I...

How Accurate Are the Viking Sagas?

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The Viking sagas are deeply compelling mythologies, but epics like the Volsunga saga also preserve some elements of historical fact . Almost...

How Were Viking Ships Built and Buried?

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In 793, the monks of Lindisfarne watched in horror as men invaded their holy place. They were under attack. There had been rumors of pirates...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

New Genetic Study of Scotland’s Picts

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A new genetic study has offered insight into the geographic origins and social organization of the Picts of Scotland, according to a report ...

DNA study sheds light on Scotland’s Picts, and resolves some myths about them

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The people known as the Picts have puzzled archaeologists and historians for centuries. They lived in Scotland during the early medieval per...

The Shadowy Kingdom Of Gewissae, Britain’s First Kings

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Gewissae was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that ruled much of southern Britain from the fifth to the seventh centuries as the island began forging ...

Tiny Bead, Found In Bulgaria, Is World's Oldest Gold

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Every year, we discover something about our history on the planet through excavations around the world. In one such excavation, archaeologis...

Researchers discover what triggered Earth's last ice age

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At the beginning of the last ice, local mountain glaciers grew and formed large ice sheets, like the one seen here. (CREDIT: Creative Common...

The puzzle of Neanderthal aesthetics

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Surprising new insights into the minds of this extinct human species suggest they may have been far more cultured than their outdated brutis...

Video – Viking Age fortresses on the North Frisian islands

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The Borgsumburg on the North Frisian island Föhr. The recording of April’s research seminar, featuring Dr Martin Segschneider on the Viking ...

Beowulf was connected to King Cnut, study finds

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When King Cnut sailed to Denmark in 1019, did he bring a copy of Beowulf with him? That is the theory put forward in a new article on why th...

Stolen coins reveals King Alfred had help from ally to stop Vikings ruling England

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Alfred was the king of Wessex and then later king of the Anglo-Saxons, and his grandson Æthelstan was the first 'King of the English...

Double hoard of Viking treasure discovered near Harald Bluetooth's fort in Denmark

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 Archaeologists say Harald Bluetooth paid his men and the Danish aristocracy with "cross coins" and thereby spread knowledge of th...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Modern-day Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish people found to have Pictish ancestry

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Pictish Stone in the Museum of Scotland. Credit: Johnbod/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The Picts of Scotland who have long intrigued and have ...

Collectors guilty of illegal plot to sell historic Anglo-Saxon coins abroad

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Two metal detectorists have been found guilty of hatching an illegal plot to sell Anglo-Saxon coins of “immense historical significance” abr...