Denmark’s National Museum recently unveiled a first-of-its-kind Viking “portrait,” which researchers claim is the closest they have yet come to an actual painting or photograph from the Viking Age, ...

The Viking Age saw the pillaging of the British Isles, France, and the Mediterranean until inequality, Christianity, and sex ended the era.

A Viking toolbox found in Denmark has been opened for the first time in 1,000 years, revealing an extraordinary set of iron hand tools that may have been used to make Viking ships and houses, ...

The seafaring life of a Viking was rough in days of yore. But today, Denmark, one of the ancestral homes of Vikings, often ranks at the top of lists of countries with the best quality of life. Its ...

Archaeologists have found over 30 graves from the Viking era near Aarhus, Denmark, including a “very rare” coffin of an “important woman” who lived in the 10th century. Researchers were alerted to the ...

We take a look at the unexpected places the Vikings reached, and what remnants of their visits you can still see today.

Show more Show less Archaeologists have unearthed a large Viking burial site in northern Denmark after workers stumbled across it during a construction project A museum conservator holds a Viking Age ...

Once upon a time, there was a Viking king. He prayed to Thor, Odin and Freya and ruled over a land that did not yet have an official name in the year 950. Being imaginative as well as influential, he ...

Rikka Rasmussen, left, and Sandie Mullin, executive director of the Elverhøj Museum of History & Art, poses outside the museum during Danish Days in Solvang. Mullin says the festival brings people ...