For one night each January, a single island at Scotland's most northern tip becomes consumed by fire. Up Helly Aa, a tribute to the Shetland Islands' Norse ancestry, stands as one of the most ...

Last year, the discovery of an ax head on a mountaintop overlooking Norway’s Trondheim Fjord led archaeologists to a tenth-century Viking grave. Though they found no remains, the team recovered a ...

An impressive ax head is one of hundreds of Viking artifacts found during excavations under the streets of Dublin. When Irish archaeologists working under Dublin’s South Great George’s Street just ...