Thursday, March 28, 2024

Why Berserkers Were Some Of History’s Most Feared Warriors

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Viking berserkers existed as mercenaries for hundreds of years during the Scandinavian Middle Ages, traveling in bands to fight wherever the...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

10 Discoveries from Sutton Hoo’s Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial

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Edith Pretty, one of England’s first female magistrates, owned a huge estate in south-east Suffolk known as Sutton Hoo. Pretty had been awar...

Intriguing Skull Modifications Discovered in Viking Women

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A recent study delves into the discovery of three women from Viking-Age Gotland who underwent skull elongation. This investigation sheds lig...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology

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Early Dark Age Britain is notorious for being poorly recorded. Most of our information about the era comes from much later records, written ...
Monday, March 04, 2024

Magnet fisherman pulls a 1,200-year-old Viking sword out of a river

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Trevor Penny found a Viking sword while magnet fishing in Oxfordshire (Picture: Trevor Penny/Triangle News) A magnet fisherman was shocked t...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World

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Science loves the Vikings. NASA’s 1970s mission to Mars paid homage to the Vikings, and Bluetooth wireless technology takes its name from th...

Seeing the wood for the trees: How archaeologists use hazelnuts to reconstruct ancient woodlands

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If we could stand in a landscape that our Mesolithic ancestors called home, what would we see around us? Scientists have devised a method of...

Archaeologists decode the secrets held within Scotland's oldest manuscript

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In a major archaeological discovery, the ancient monastery associated with the creation of the Book of Deer, Scotland's oldest surviving...

Researchers create method to detect cases of anemia in archaeological remains

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Original micro-CT resolution(a) versus adjusted resolution for comparison to CT images(b) for the same individual. Sagittal micro-CT (a) and...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Excavations at the medieval Beaumont Abbey in France have revealed nearly 800 years of history before the French Revolution shut it down.

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Excavation of the servants' cemetery at Beaumont Abbey. (Image credit: Copyright Jean Demerliac, Inrap) The excavation of a medieval Fre...

Kyivan Rus: The First East Slavic State

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Long before Russia or Ukraine existed, there was Kyivan Rus. Centuries before Russia or Ukraine raised arms against each other, Scandinavian...

Up to 50,000 coins from the 4th century discovered off of Sardinia

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Archaeologists exploring the waters off the Italian island of Sardinia have discovered a cache of between 30,000 and 50,000 coins dating bac...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

The Vinland Map: How a Mysterious Forgery Fooled Experts for Decades

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The Vinland Map courted controversy from the moment its discovery was announced. / Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Universit...

Bones Reveal Bog Man's Secret Life Before His Violent End in a Foreign Land

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Vittrup man's teeth reveal his maritime origins. Arnold Mikkelsen/Fischer et al., PLOS One, 2024) Violently bludgeoned to death and left...

11,000-year-old Stone Age structure discovered underwater

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Researchers have found a prehistoric man-made stone wall that could be dating back some 11,000 years just off the coast of modern-day German...

4,000-year-old copper dagger found in Poland

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A rare copper dagger dating back more than 4,000 years has been discovered in a forest near Jarosław, southeastern Poland. Shaped like a fli...

A 2,000-Year-Old Rune-Inscribed Knife Sheds Light on Denmark’s Past

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The knife engraved with runes believed to be Denmark's oldest. Photo: Rógvi N. Johansen, Museum Odense. Archaeologists from the Museum O...

Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring

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Courtesy National Museum of Denmark.   The Merovingian line ruled the Franks from the middle of the fifth century until 751. The Merovingian...

Gold Ring Possibly Linked to Royal Family Discovered by Metal Detectorist

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Lars Nielsen was casually using his metal detector while exploring the Emmerlev area in Denmark when he made quite the surprising discovery:...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Rare Merovingian gold ring found in Jutland

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A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Merovingian gold ring dating to 500-600 A.D. in Emmerlev, Southwest Jutland, Denmark. The ring is ...