Aside from their love of the sea, the ancient Greeks and Vikings shared much more that united them and divided them.

yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America. 5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the ...

An archaeologist from over 150 years ago sent a message to the future, and it has just been uncovered during a more detailed dig.

Viking men from across Scandinavia were the first settlers of the Faroe Islands, geneticists reveal. The ancient Vikings ...

It was supposed to be a routine Stone Age settlement excavation to clear a path for a new roundabout and water pipes near Tvååker in southern Sweden. It turned into so much more, as archaeologists ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Understand why Viking settlers of Iceland and the Faroe Islands represent different gene pools, and why this could rewrite ...

A new genetic study revealed distinct Viking origins for the Faroe Islands and Iceland, challenging previous assumptions ...

cultural and religious history of the Viking Age from Iceland to Lithuania. The authors show that it is no longer possible to understand the history of the Norman Conquest, the successes of David I of ...

The clip could be used as part of an enquiry into Viking settlement - ask the children ... This clip is suitable for teaching History at KS2 and KS3 in England, Second Level (Scotland) and KS1 ...

In movies and books about Vikings, the ancient seafaring conquerors don ... in the 11th century and one of the earliest Christian settlements in the country. The remains of the Varnhem Vikings ...