Aside from their love of the sea, the ancient Greeks and Vikings shared much more that united them and divided them.

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 reinterpretation. Over centuries, writers, politicians, and artists reshaped these ...

Not to be confused with Minnesota's favorite football team, these wool-wearing, sword- and shield-carrying Norsemen at Saturday's Viking Village aren't Valhalla-bent on marauding. Rather, the Vikings ...

After ancient artifacts are discovered, where do they go? Aside from a minority of pieces sitting in personal collections or artifacts being studied in the lab, many items make their way from a buried ...