At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife ...

Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text.

"They took a dead man and cast him into the well, and then filled it up with stones." So declares the 800-year-old Norse Sverris Saga, an accounting of the rise and reign of King Sverre Sigurdsson, ...

It’s a period chronicled in an ancient Norse text called the Sverris Saga ... of the well some 21 feet deep revealed a man’s skeleton — possibly that of the person described in the saga.

It’s a period chronicled in an ancient Norse text called the Sverris Saga ... In 1938, a partial excavation of the well some 21 feet deep revealed a man’s skeleton — possibly that of the person ...

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found ... detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the study with the University Museum, Norwegian University of ...

From 28 November, visitors to Greenland’s capital Nuuk will be able to get a direct flight to the city for the very first time, via jetplane from Copenhagen, Denmark. The new airport marks the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Archeologists in Denmark have made one of the most notable discoveries in recent history: a ...

The skeletons were preserved thanks to favorable soil chemistry, particularly chalk and high water levels, experts from Museum Odense ... social patterns in the Viking Age, such as kinship ...