Delvaux, a historian focused on the Middle Ages, is also the Haarlow-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows. The undergraduate class explored the complex lives of the people in ...

A new study reported in the journal Cell on January 5 captures a genetic history across Scandinavia over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. This look back at Scandinavian history is ...

Worried three of its prize vessels would fall part, Norway's Viking Ship Museum is moving a trio of millennia-old ships to a ...

The Jelling stones are large carved runestones from the 10th century. From the year 800 to 1050, what we now know as Denmark played a central role as a home base for Viking expeditions far and wide.

Rök runestone, one of the world's most famous, is believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia. With hit TV shows and recent ...

Archeologists in Denmark have made one of the most notable discoveries in recent history: a group of 50 skeletons found in a burial ground, believed to be from the Viking Era. The skeletal remains ...

Five historic Danish Viking age Ring Fortresses have just been added to the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage List. The fortresses were built between year 958 and 987 under the reign of the Danish ...

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 historical accuracy of Robert Eggers' "The Northmen" sidelines the real archeological evidence for Viking warrior women like shieldmaidens.

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

In Assassin's Creed Valhalla, I'm all too familiar with the 9th century monasteries in England thanks to the many raiding adventures I've been on as Eivor. It's easy to get wrapped up in the heat of ...