Learn more about Viking culture and why new research is saying they had extensive trading networks throughout Europe and beyond.

The Viking era lasted nearly three centuries (late 8th century to late 11th century) and had a profound impact on a wide variety of geographical areas, reaching across the known world of that time.

Hårby Valkyrie: A 1,200-year-old gold Viking Age woman sporting a sword, shield and ponytail The Vikings wore helmets with wings and horns. This idea can be traced to the 19th-century German artist ...

Most eighteenth-century vikings wore winged helmets, the cap of choice for wild, romantic natures and refined sensibilities. ... The Vikings existed from the 8th to the 11th century.

More than 1,200 years later, the Nordic marauders are finally set to occupy Camden Town. A new interactive attraction mapped ...

During the Viking period, British-Irish ancestry was widespread in Scandinavia, compared to eastern Baltic ancestry which was more localized to the Swedish island of Gotland and central Sweden.

The ghostly outline of the 1,200-year-old Viking ship burial was revealed by ground-penetrating radar in 2018. It's the first such burial excavated in Scandinavia in more than a century.

A pre-Viking burial mound on Leka Island, seen from the west, where the remains of an eighth-century ship were found. Credit... Hanne Bryn/NTNU University Museum ...

In the late 8th century, Anglo-Saxon Britain faces a threat like none before: northmen from across the seas, also called Vikings. In Vikings Hnefatafl: Kings of the Dark Age, you will be leading ...