Two horned helmets widely attributed to the Vikings have just been dated to 900 B.C. — some 2,000 years before the Vikings ever existed. The bronze helmets were discovered in Denmark in 1942 and ...

From appearing in the Asterix comic book series, to inspiring an avatar on “The Masked Singer,” Vikings have revealed themselves across pop culture sporting horned helmets to symbolize their ...

The new research dates the helmets to around 900 B.C.E. National Museum of Denmark Some of the most common depictions of Vikings show large warriors wearing helmets affixed with horns.

The elaborately-horned Viksø helmets have been associated with medieval Vikings. But a new study fixes their date to about 900 B.C. – over a thousand years before any Vikings.

The thing is, horned helmets did exist in northern Europe—but they predated the Vikings by at least 2,000 years. They’re products of a Bronze Age culture that predates written records in the ...

Painters began to show Vikings with horned helmets, evidently inspired by Wagner's costume designer, Professor Carl Emil Doepler, who created horned helmets for use in the first Bayreuth ...

Books about Vikings are riddled with stereotypes, the old and popular ones about horned helmets and Valkyries, the modern academic ones about peaceful traders and urban developers. Eleanor ...

However, two horned helmets first discovered in Viksø, Denmark have been traced back to Sardinia in the Bronze Age – dispelling myths that they originated from the Viking era, according to ...

From appearing in the Asterix comic book series, to inspiring an avatar on “The Masked Singer,” Vikings have revealed themselves across pop culture sporting horned helmets to symbolize their ...