Explore the world of the Vikings, filled with legendary rulers, daring journeys, epic battles, and fascinating archaeological discoveries. Learn about their traditions, mysterious artifacts, powerful symbols, and how Norse mythology shaped their lives.
Here, you can find everything you want to know about Viking history and the fascinating stories of Norse mythology.
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – If Vikings were alive today, they would be surprised and perhaps even a little flattered to see how much interest the world has taken in their history. The Vikings are more popular than ever, and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Norwegian archaeologists have good reason to be excited about this latest discovery. With help of ground penetrating radar device scientists have discovered 15 giant Viking burial mounds. One of them may contain a boat grave!
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When you’re an archaeologist you may have to wait a long time before you find something of historical value. Norwegian archaeologists had been excavating for weeks without discovering anything but post holes and cooking pits.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – It’s a race against time and there isn’t much time left to uncover the secrets of a rare Norwegian Viking ship burial before it’s destroyed. Many questions must be answered, and artifacts must be saved.
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There are still many beautiful Viking Age treasures waiting to be discovered and one of them has just been unearthed on a farm close to Stockholm in Sweden. Archaeologists are used to discovering old historical
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Destruction of historical and archaeological sites happens much too often. This time a huge Viking burial complex in Norway has become the victim of vandalism. Viking graves were looted, and the perpetrators managed to get
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In a careful interdisciplinary study of rare shields finds, researchers are finally able to reveal the last piece of the puzzle of how Vikings and their ancestors in the Iron Age made their shields. Viking
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – How many more stunning unknown runestones could still be scattered across Sweden? We cannot answer that question, but we can say with certainty a farmer in Sweden made a startling and unexpected discovery. When the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A fascinating DNA study of more than 400 Viking skeletons has just re-written history. Today we know with certainty some Vikings were not those who we previously thought. Scientists have examined skeletons scattered across Europe
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The last confrontation between friends of the gods and their enemies will occur in the field of Vigrid on the day of Ragnarok. Naglfar and Fenrir on the Tullstorp Runestone in Scania, Sweden. image credit: Sven Rosborn – CC BY-SA 3.0 Naglfar
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Found in the 1950s by workmen digging pipe trenches in Chapel Yard, Yarm, near the River Tees, in the UK, this ancient helmet seems rather unexciting at first sight, but don’t let it looks fool
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There are not many Viking ship burials in Sweden, or anywhere else for that matter. Viking ship burials are rare finds and whenever archaeologists discover one, they are always excited. Last year, two full-sized Viking
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Vikings were masters of the oceans. They traveled far and reached new lands because their longships were fast and could sail in shallow water. Vikings’ fearless dragonships were the greatest technical and artistic achievement of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The investigation of the giant Gjellestad Viking ship burial continues. When scientists examined remnants of the mound that surrounds the ship, they discovered some mysteries. In 2018 archaeologists made an incredible discovery in Norway. Using high-resolution georadar
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Anyone with the slightest knowledge of Viking Age history will know the Vikings were excellent craftsmen and merchants who established successful relationships and traded with people from various countries. Trade was a flourishing activity for the Vikings
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Erik the Red was a famous Viking today remembered for colonizing Greenland and being the father of the great Viking explorer Leif Erikson. Erik the Red’s life was full of difficulties. He was a very controversial Viking. He
