Archeologists recently uncovered a massive cache of jewelry, silver coins, and other relics at ancient gravesites in western Norway. At least three of them appear to belong to a trio of highly ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the ...

A Viking-age burial discovered in Trøndelag, Norway, has left archaeologists baffled by its unique elements. The most striking feature of the find is the placement of two scallop shells near the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 10th-century Viking woman in Norway who was buried in a boat grave along with her pet dog, shedding more light on special funerary rituals reserved for ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

This round, silver pendant was found in a 10th-century elite woman's burial in Sweden in 1920 and is the only known depiction of a pregnant Viking. The artifact, known as the Ash Pendant, is in the ...

Former Minnesota Viking Stefon Diggs appeared in a Massachusetts courtroom on Dec. 30 to answer to criminal charges in connection to allegations from a woman who said he attacked her this month while ...

Have a holly jolly holiday and tune into exciting programming about the natural world at the museum this December Lyric Aquino Once feared extinct, black-footed ferrets have rebounded thanks partly to ...

A woman has filed a lawsuit against a gym for negligence, alleging the employees allowed a man to take nude photos of her and other women. The lawsuit, filed Nov. 3, states staff at Viking Fitness ...

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