The mass grave was uncovered during a University of Cambridge training excavation at Wandlebury, an Iron Age hillfort just south of the city. The burial pit itself measured roughly four meters by one ...

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who ...

Tall individual was somewhere between 17 and 24 years old, with evidence indicating he may have had a hormone-related growth condition ...

Ross Edgley was 950 miles into his 1,000-mile swim around the coast of Iceland when his body began to fall apart. Trapped off the south-west coast, near Grindavik, pinned between an erupting volcano, ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology ...

Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating stories of love, loss and epic battles.

A windswept mound on the Cumbrian coast could be hiding one of the UK’s most extraordinary archaeological finds ...

A pit containing both complete and dismembered bodies may date to when Cambridgeshire was a borderland between Saxon and ...

The Minnesota Vikings are predicted to sign a future Hall of Fame signal-caller to replace J.J. McCarthy as the starting ...

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages.

James Yerdon, who authorities said is affiliated with a Norse Pagan religious retreat, pleaded not guilty to child sex abuse ...

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 ...