More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway.

Archaeologists soon found that the person in the grave had been buried with an axe and a dagger, and that there were “remnants of textile, likely from a garment.” Pictures show archaeologists working ...

Archaeologists in Poland recently uncovered a centuries-old ring with enigmatic engravings. The discovery occurred at Wawel ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided ...

Strange Antiquities, the sequel to botany shop puzzler Strange Horticulture, gives you new ways to solve all its perplexing ...

It could take years for archaeologists to properly excavate and preserve the delicate wooden vessel, which likely became shipwrecked Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks ...

The mysterious Rök stone, one of the world’s most famous runestones, was raised in the ninth Century in Sweden and contains the longest runic inscription ... alludes to a Viking fear very ...