New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

So begins Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Skeleton in Armor,” inspired by an actual armor-adorned Viking skeleton uncovered in 1863. It’s an evocative image, a soldier’s skeleton still dressed ...

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 ...

The Vikings gave shape to the hull using this "clinker" technique rather than the more conventional method of first building an inner skeleton for the hull. Discovered in Norway in 1906 ...

Called skeleton plotting, it offers other advantages as well. Every tree-ring sample contains a record for every year of growth. That's an awful lot of information, especially if what you want to ...