Quite a few stones that look like penises, so-called phallic stones, have been found. Now archaeologists believe they have ...

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The winners of a competition to design an original game piece for the Viking Age board bame Hnefatafl have been announced.

VIKING NEBULA shows what happens when military operation planners try to come up with a good mission name, unlike Odyssey ...

Viking has officially added a new European river cruise ship to its fleet. On Tuesday, the company took delivery of Viking Nerthus at Meyer’s Neptun Werft shipyard in Rostock-Warnemuende, Germany. The ...

An “attentive private person” has made an astonishing discovery in a Swedish wetland: an extremely rare Viking-era arm brace, forged from iron, a deviation from the typical silver and bronze.

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Valdemar’s Day is when proud Danes remember the Danish flag’s rich history and origin on 15 June every year. Penned by the ...

Scholars debate different aspects of this transforming and expanding society. Yet most of them agree that ostentatious consumption was a key feature of Viking culture; those who owned the best weapons ...

But it turned out to be a Viking Age iron arm bracelet that could be more than 1,000 years old. After the anonymous man discovered the artifact, he contacted a local archaeologist, who advised him ...