From the remains of five Viking ships in Denmark to the excavation of an ancient rubbish dump in Westray, uncover the finds that have revealed an enormous amount about Viking life. In 1992 Mark ...

So begins Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Skeleton in Armor,” inspired by an actual armor-adorned Viking skeleton ... wrapped foods in tombs in Ancient Egypt. One such Bell Beaker ...

Amleth (who embodies the traditional hypermasculine Viking warrior ... of this ancient history) is partaking in the spoils of a violent raid on an innocent village. Then an armor-clad woman ...

Karl-Oskar Erlandsson (an archaeologist from Kalmar) said that from the over 1,000 Viking-era bracelets in the country’s State Historical Museum, only three of the ancient objects are made of iron.