Some discoveries remind us of how much history still lies hidden, waiting to be uncovered. One such moment happened in 2022 when a museum employee diving in Poland’s Supraśl River stumbled upon a ...

A metal detectorist unearthed a Viking sword fragment shaped like wild boars, a first-of-its-kind find for the Netherlands, photos show. Photo from the Fries Museum On a farm in the Netherlands, a ...

An 8-year-old girl, originally from Minnesota, made a fantastic discovery playing in a Swedish lake: a pre-Viking era sword. Saga Vanecek, who lives with her family in Sweden after spending seven ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A construction crew discovered a 1,000-year-old iron sword in the Netherlands still fully intact. The short sword comes complete with decorative ...

“The preservation, the jewellery, the symbolism, it’s extraordinary on multiple levels,” Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) archaeologist Raymond Sauvage says of the discovery of a ...

Someone dug a hole in the dark brown dirt of eastern Norway and placed a set of silver Viking treasures inside. They probably planned to come back. Instead, they vanished. Over 1,000 years later, ...

What it tells us about the past: This cast silver figurine of a Valkyrie — a mythological maiden who assists Odin, the Norse god of war — is a unique example of Viking Age metalworking that provides ...

A new road project in Sweden has led archaeologists to some fantastic Viking-age discoveries. The revelation took place in ...

Archaeologists excavated a mountainside farm in Norway and uncovered 1,100-year-old silver treasure buried by the Vikings, photos show. Photo from Anniken Celine Berger, Archaeological Museum at the ...