However, the Vikings did not colonize North America on a large scale, at least compared to what Europeans did after 1492. So why didn't the Vikings colonize North America? In short, it's unclear ...
However, they weren't the first Europeans to make the voyage to North America. After establishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland in the ninth and 10th centuries A.D., the Vikings reached what is ...
Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered a mysterious Viking Age burial ground with graves shaped like stone ships. As many as 139 of these graves have been found so far at the site near Varberg ...
A burial ground containing 50 "exceptionally well-preserved" skeletons from the Viking Age has been discovered in Denmark. The 21,500sq ft site was found during a routine survey ahead of ...
Archaeologists have made a landmark discovery that could hold important clues to the Viking era: a burial ground containing some 50 "exceptionally well-preserved" skeletons.
Burials found at the site were hundreds of years younger than the Stone Age. Arkeologerna and Sweden's National Historical Museums In 2017, the town of Tvååker, Sweden, started a city planning ...