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

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 ...

speak! thou fearful guest!/Who, with thy hollow breast/Still in rude armor drest,/Comest to daunt me!” So begins Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Skeleton in Armor,” inspired by an actual ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beneath the sleepy Danish village of Åsum, archaeologists have discovered more than 50 remarkable Viking graves, which will ...