Researchers at Vrak – Museum of Wrecks, in Stockholm, hope to get funds to excavate a 15th-century shipwreck from the waters ...

Archaeologists from the Stockholm Shipwreck Museum hope to secure funding for further research and excavation of the ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

They have visited Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, and finally, Iceland. Last night, the team visited a Viking Ship museum in ...

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For three turbulent centuries, the glimpse of a square sail and dragon-headed prow on the horizon struck terror into the hearts of medieval Europeans. Indeed, the ...

From the remains of five Viking ships in Denmark to the excavation of an ancient rubbish dump in Westray, uncover the finds that have revealed an enormous amount about Viking life. In 1992 Mark ...

Theories about the wreckage had swirled for years, with some believing it to be a sunken Viking ship ... 1460s with later repairs, the museum said. The large ship measures about 115 feet long ...

Viking traders carried a set of folding scales which they used to weigh coins to make sure they got a fair deal. The Oseberg ship was found in 1904 and is now in a museum in Oslo, Norway.

It is a carving in oak of the head and neck of some beaked creature which formed either the figurehead or the stern-post of a Viking ship. Its precise purpose is at present uncertain. The animal ...