Historian and Zak Crawley fan Tom Holland is the cricket-loving half of the popular Rest Is History podcast, whose tour Down Under was timed to coincide with the Ashes. This is his take on cricket’s ...

A 1904 photograph shows the excavation of a Viking ship burial in Oseberg, Norway. The 71-foot-long vessel dating to A.D. 834 contained the remains of two women and an abundance of extraordinary grave ...

Two friends discover Viking treasure - coins dating back 1,000 years that reveal trade routes and secrets of the Irish Sea.

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Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

Archaeologists in Aarhus, Denmark, reported finding graves of 77 Viking in a medieval churchyard – a single site that ...

Running back Roger Craig and quarterback Ken Anderson are among nine semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2026 in the seniors category.

Just 100 kilometres south-west of Tokyo, rising between Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures, Mount Fuji is Japan’s highest mountain at 3776 metres. Worshipped since ancient times, revered by poets and ...

Construction on a new road project in Sweden accidentally uncovered multiple Viking-age villages. One notable part of the discovery was a funerary pyre for a chieftain built up to be visible from far ...

The Vikings return home full of energy after their upset of the Lions to face a Baltimore team ready to bully them in the trenches.

What is it about the Viking Age that drives so much interest? A common view is that it was a violent period across Europe, beset by raiding, conquest and plunder, led by people from Scandinavia. But ...