This stunning image of an aurora was taken was taken in Norstead, a Viking village replica. The Norstead Viking Village in L'anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland is the only confirmed Viking site in North ...

We went because: To see the remains of the first Viking settlement in North America (A.D. 1000) located at the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula in Newfoundland. Don't miss: Docent tour, included ...

After L’Anse aux Meadows — the first and so far only confirmed Viking settlement in North America — was discovered in 1960, it has been thought other sites might be found. Since then, archaeologists ...

Newly discovered ruins offer tantalizing, if preliminary, evidence that Vikings may have ventured farther south into North America than previously thought. Evidence at an archaeological site in ...

With a last name of Erickson, it's not surprising that I'd be warmly welcomed in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. After all, my ancestor Leif made quite a splash when he arrived a thousand years ago.

"Would youse like scrunchions on top of dat?" my waitress asks sweetly. Now, wait just a minute. Ordering lunch has already been a language lesson: "Fish and brewis" is a hardtack cracker soaked in ...

Archaeologists Chase Childs and Sarah Parcak remove an upper grass layer at the Point Rosee site in Newfoundland. (Credit: Greg Mumford / UAB) Archaeologists worked hard to unearth what might well be ...

Satellite imagery has led archaeologists to what may be the second Viking settlement to have been discovered in North America. Excavations in southern Newfoundland last June yielded preliminary ...