On a farm in Denmark, more than a half-dozen pieces of Viking Age silver jewelry that doubled as money were unearthed. Gustav Brunnsgaard, a 22-year-old metal detectorist and archaeology student ...

The artifacts were buried underneath the floor of a building in the settlement, where the Vikings are believed ... two pearls and 12 coin pendants "used as jewelry" were also found in the pot ...

On the Isle of Man, a metal detectorist has discovered a squished fragment of a 11th-century Viking treasure: a piece of an ...

Archaeologists in Norway have unearthed the Viking burial of a high-status woman who was buried with her dog in a boat, ...

Since then, Danish and international experts have further investigated the jewelry, which they have dated back to the early days of the Viking Age, around 800 A.D., according to the museum.

Archaeologists found 50 Viking-era skeletons in Åsum ... For example, some of the jewelry did not originate in Denmark. "As we suspected, the graves tell us a story of people connected to ...

Buried in a pile of costume jewelry was an ancient gold ring that archaeologists say once belonged to a powerful Viking chief. Mari Ingelin Gausvik Heskestad, from Norway, spotted the ring among ...

A person visited a wetland in Öland and found a 1,000-year-old iron armband, officials said. Photos show the highly decorated Viking jewelry. Google Street View ...

Despite each grave’s wealth of jewelry and personal belongings, none contain any bones from the Viking women themselves. One possible reason has to do with the environmental conditions of Skumsnes.