Hårby Valkyrie: A 1,200-year-old gold Viking Age woman sporting a sword, shield and ponytail The Vikings wore helmets with ...

When Alf Monge, a former U.S. Army Cryptographer who was born in Norway and broke a Japanese code during WWII, looked at the ...

Asked who discovered America, 8-year-old Kristin Bjarnadottir, a third grader in Holar, Iceland, answers with complete confidence: “Leifur,” naming the celebrated Viking explorer. She and ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Vikings traded all over Europe and as far east as Central Asia. They bought goods and materials such as silver ...

More than a mere blood sport, the climax of the Wolin Viking Festival in Poland is a mecca for “experimental archaeology." But exploration and trade weren’t the only roads to wealth.

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Kristina Killgrove is a staff writer at Live Science with a focus on archaeology and paleoanthropology news. Her articles have also appeared in venues such as Forbes, Smithsonian, and Mental Floss.