A Viking woman found in Norway with scallop shells over her mouth leaves experts puzzled about the meaning behind this burial ...

A ninth-century grave discovered in Norway held the remains of a Viking Age woman whose mouth was covered with two large scallop shells.

Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

Roy Søreng, a local metal detectorist, found a Viking Age brooch in Norwegian soil. When he called archaeologists to the site, they found much more than what they were expecting. The archaeologists ...

Archaeologists have unearthed dozens of "unusual" Viking burial plots, as well as artifacts, which are spread over nine separate archaeological sites.

After ancient artifacts are discovered, where do they go? Aside from a minority of pieces sitting in personal collections or artifacts being studied in the lab, many items make their way from a buried ...

Carvings uncovered in the Canadian Arctic may be the earliest portraits of the Vikings created in the Americas. But archaeologists have been puzzling over whether the artwork really shows the infamous ...