Experience the ancient art of sword-making by forging a Viking-age sword from a rusted coil spring. This DIY tutorial takes you through the step-by-step process of transforming a seemingly useless ...

The elongated, cone-shaped skulls of Viking Age women buried on the Baltic island of Gotland may be evidence of trading contacts with the Black Sea region, a new study finds. The women's skulls ...

Skull modification is a rarer phenomenon in Viking Age Gotland, with only three known cases, all of which are female. These women, buried in cemeteries at Ire and Havor, had artificially elongated ...

"The most recent find of a sword was in 2011 when there was an excavation in the neighboring municipality." Interestingly, a grave with similar contents was unearthed close by Heiland's home in 1930.

A METAL detectorist has accidentally discovered a 1000-year-old Viking sword fragment with unique animal carvings. The incredible discovery was made by a treasure hunter Sander Visser while scannin… ...

Art World Nordic Vikings Owned Way Too Many Swords, Study Finds Compared with their Danish neighbors, the Nordic Vikings were exceedingly violent.

Viking life wasn’t just tough, it was often chronically painful. For proof, all you need to do is examine their skulls. That’s what researchers at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg did with ...

Mystery Upright Viking Swords at 1,200-Year-Old Burial Site Unearthed Published Nov 18, 2022 at 5:58 AM EST By Pandora Dewan ...

More than 3,000 swords from the Late Iron Age and Viking era were found in Norway, compared to just a few dozen from this period in Denmark.

An artistic representation of the Gotlant burial of a Viking-era woman with a modified skull Current Swedish Archaeology / Mirosław Kuźma / Matthias Toplak Examples of artificially altered bones ...

Archaeologists have unearthed two Viking graves with swords buried upright standing right beside them. Experts believe the site from 1,200 years ago and they say the weapons were placed there on ...

A family in Norway came across a Viking Age sword and lance when they were digging up their back garden for building work.