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To trace forgotten Viking trade routes, an experimental archaeologist spent three years braving frozen Norwegian waters.
Since 2022, Jarrett and his intrepid crews have navigated multiple voyages aboard an open, square-rigged clinker boat built ...
Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can ...
A team of archaeologists in Denmark just stumbled upon a Viking hall from the late ninth century C.E. — and they think it may have been built by the king whose name graces today's wireless technology.
New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided about what that means.
A stunning 1,200-year-old gold and silver figurine depicting a Viking woman armed with a sword and shield has been discovered in Denmark’s Hårby village. Valkyries are often depicted as fierce, armed ...
Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly ...
Archaeologists have discovered an exquisite ancient burial of an elite woman belonging to the Caral Civilization. © Peru Ministry of Culture Roughly around the same ...