Archaeology in Europe News

When, in season four of the hit television series Vikings, Ragnar Lothbrok exhorts his fellow Norsemen to pull their ships out of the water ...

Sindre Martinsen-Evje, the mayor of Østfold County Municipality in Norway, has called for urgent action to help preserve the Gjellestad Viki...

The Well Man was little more than a myth until 1938, when archaeologists excavated an abandoned well in the ruins of Sverresborg, outside Tr...

Skeletons and skulls sit in graves at an excavation site of a 10th century Viking burial ground in Aasum, Denmark (Copyright 2024 The Associ...

The Viking treasure discovered in Årdal, Norway. The hoard consists of silver bracelets that are thought to be more than 1,000 years old. Vo...

The excavation of the prehistoric site is expected to start on Monday An archaeological excavation of a prehistoric tomb in Alderney is due ...

A lake in Hardangervidda National Park, Norway. The shelter used during the Viking Age was found in the Hardanger Plateau, much of which is ...

The excavation of a large Viking-era burial site in Denmark has unearthed 50 unusually well-preserved skeletons that archaeologists expect w...

In the 1960s, Anne and Helge Ingstad discovered an 11th-century Viking settlement in L’Anse aux Meadows, Canada, proving that the Vikings ma...

Image Credit : LDA Archaeologists from the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology (LDA) of Saxony-Anhalt have discovered a S...

Exotic items found at sites such as Sutton Hoo may have been brought to England by returning warriors, rather than via trade. Photograph: Jo...

The flat fields surrounding Jarlsberg Manor contain numerous boat burials Museum of Cultural History / University of Oslo In 2018, a metal d...

A farmer in Norway's southwestern Rogaland district found the clay-encrusted remains of the Viking Age sword in a field he was clearing....

A large trove of coins dating back to the formation of Sweden in the 1100s has been discovered at Brahe Church on Visingsö, the island with ...

Scientists have long tried to unravel the mystery of the bog body today known as Haraldskærkvinnan (Haraldskærwoman). With the help of histo...

Examples of artificially altered bones belonging to island-dwelling Vikings may be examples of purposeful body modifications, according to a...

According to archaeologists, England relied on silver imported from France to make its own coins around 1,300 years ago. Even older English ...

A large Roman villa was uncovered in Oxfordshire. Credit: Red River Archaeology Group The complex was adorned with intricate painted plaster...

Today, Smallhythe Place in Kent is best known as a bohemian rural retreat once owned by the Victorian actress Ellen Terry and her daughter E...

This 5,500-year-old skeleton named Blodwen on display at Amgueddfa Llandudno Museum  (Image: Amgueddfa Llandudno Museum) The roles of men an...