The Viking Cinema featured in HES’s award‑winning publication Art Deco Scotland, and the organisation holds the original architects’ drawings and plans for the building, making it a natural choice for ...

In Pictures: Burning galley provides fitting climax to Up Helly Aa revelry - The celebration of all things Viking culminated in a harbour blaze at the Shetland festival.

Up Helly Aa: Hundreds of torchbearers gather on Scottish island for Viking fire festival The Up Helly Aa festival, Europe's largest fire festival, is held on the last Tuesday in January in Shetland.

The foundations for the Viking expeditions were laid on farms. Society became more stratified during this period, and carved ...

Puffed-up Sun. Data from inside the Sun’s corona — the outermost layer of its atmosphere — helped astrophysicists to create a sharper picture of the Sun’s shifting boundaries than ever before. The ...

An archaeologist believes he's determined the location of where Ivarr the Boneless is buried, along with the warrior’s ship.

In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship lost all power while navigating one of Norway’s most dangerous stretches of sea. As ...

A large bonfire lit up the night sky in the town of Lerwick in Scotland’s Shetland Islands as revelers celebrated the annual Up Helly Aa – Europe’s largest fire festival – on Tuesday7.According to the ...

A windswept mound on England’s Cumbrian coast may conceal one of the most sought-after Viking burials in Britain: the grave of Ivarr “the Boneless”, a feared 9th-century war leader linked to the Great ...

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Archaeologists have unearthed the largest-ever Viking “super ship” dating to the 1400s, a discovery that prompts a rethink of the scale of medieval trade across northern Europe. The ship, named ...