A unique game piece from Norway that was crafted during the time of Harald Bluetooth may depict a Viking king.

First unearthed in 1797, the small gaming piece was kept in storage at the National Museum of Denmark for more than 200 years ...

The first true portrait of a Viking has emerged from a museum drawer after 200 years, and it’s absolutely not what you expect. A curator at the National Museum of Denmark has rediscovered a tiny, 10th ...

The piece was found along with "six bone buttons, a bone die and whetstone, all deposited in a steatite bowl," according to a ...

A tiny object barely three centimeters tall has become the closest window we have into the appearance of the Vikings. It is a game piece carved in walrus ivory that, after more than two centuries in ...

According to a statement released by The National Museum of Denmark, a small figurine long-hidden in its collections has ...

Denmark's National Museum has unveiled what it calls the first true "portrait" of a Viking. The remarkably detailed 10th-century figurine challenges popular notions of the Norse as wild, unkempt ...

Denmark’s National Museum unveiled Wednesday what it described as the first “portrait” of a Viking: a miniature 10th-century figurine depicting a ...