The Viking Age conjures images of fierce warriors, longships cutting through icy waters, and raids that left their mark across Europe. But not all Vikings were the same. The groups from Norway, Sweden ...

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 ...

Vikings in Sweden suffered from painful dental issues and occasionally tried to treat them, according to a study published December 13, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Carolina Bertilsson ...

A recent PLOS ONE study reports the prevalence of dental pathologies and anatomical variations in a Swedish Viking Age population using radiographic techniques. Study: Caries prevalence and other ...

Archaeologists found some unique silver treasures at a Viking Age site in Sweden, then cleaned and restored the artifacts, photos show. Photo from Arkeologerna, SHM Sifting through the stony soil of ...

TVÅÅKER, SWEDEN—A Viking Age cemetery that contained more than 100 graves and several boat-shaped mounds known as stone ships has been found in southwestern Sweden by researchers led by Petra Nordin ...

A thousand years ago the Vikings of Scandinavia sailed and rowed their great open boats across the seas to Normandy, Iceland, Ireland and America with no protection but that of a huge dragon’s head ...

The Skjaldborg did not arrive in Stromsburg via longships, but rather by vehicles that transported them from Omaha. Young boys were immediately drawn to the Vikings even as the men were donning their ...