Researchers in Sweden just uncovered the remains of three 8th to 11th-century Viking women whose skulls were elongated into ...

You may think of Vikings as warriors raiding and ransacking ... The Viking age commonly spans the 8th century to the 11th century. Raiding clearly was an important part of Viking relations with ...

Ethelred the Unready was thought of as a weak king of England in the 11th century. Ethelred gave the Vikings gold and land to stop them invading. This money was called Danegeld. But it didn’t ...

Andrew Pegg, from Leiston, Suffolk, retrained as an archaeologist before unearthing a hoard of 11th Century coins near the town A man who found a hoard of 11th Century coins just months into his ...

Swift and deadly, the Vikings dominated the seas of northern Europe from the late eighth century to the 11th. Sails were adopted in Scandinavia by approximately the seventh century. Only fragments ...