Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off ...

local history dates back more than a millennia. In Graham’s estimation, the structure that once stood on the site of High Tarns Farm was, in fact, a “large hall of the late-Viking age.” ...

Starting in York, once the Viking city of Jorvik, archaeologist Neil Oliver sets out to discover more about Viking home life as he ... he finds evidence of an ancient Viking settlement including ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

are thought to have been baked in the funeral pyres of ancient Vikings. For comparison, in Viking homes, simple flatbreads pierced through the center with wooden dowels hung over the stove to dry ...

Here, the grassy, low-slung roofs of the Vikings' simple homes and work huts undulate like ... exhibits and a film detailing the settlement's history. "The whole mystique of these Vikings, who ...

If you're the skeptical type, you might raise an eyebrow when you hear that a particular Viking ship was built ... Dendrochronologists showed that an ancient wooden road uncovered in southwestern ...

They read a research article based on the examination of a large number of teeth from the Viking Age town of Varnhem. The town’s thousands of ancient graves hold many well-preserved Viking skeletons.