If you're fascinated by Viking culture, there's one destination you should be sure to add to your list, set in a breathtaking ...

Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off ...

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

History, particularly prehistory pieced together ... Most likely, though, it's just the same lack of imagination that turned real Viking women into a myth. Jess is an LA-based culture critic ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

They read a research article based on the examination of a large number of teeth from the Viking Age town of Varnhem. The town’s thousands of ancient graves hold many well-preserved Viking skeletons.

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 ...

Want to "walk" through a real Viking village? The sequences below from the NOVA film "The Vikings" offer a fascinating and unprecedented look at Birka, a medieval Viking village that archeologists ...

Vikings is the historical drama created by Michael Hirst for the History Channel, which premiered in 2013, inspired by the Norse sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok. Over 6 seasons, the series narrated the ...