An hour’s drive north of Stockholm, the Rune Kingdom offers a mysterious portal into Sweden’s past that reveals unexpected truths about the country’s Viking ancestors.

The Faroe Islands, an archipelago between Norway and Iceland, were once believed to have been settled by Viking explorers in the mid-9th century CE. Thanks to new analysis of ancient sheep DNA, the ...

The Vikings were responsible for crafting some weapons that smiths still look back on with admiration today — but did that ingenuity extend to also ...

Clues from an ancient Viking trading centre: A tantalizing hint of an ancient trading town Date: July 9, 2013 Source: The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Summary: It was a ...

A new study of nearly 300 ancient Scandinavian genomes has illuminated some sources of Vikings’ genetic ancestry.