Archaeologists in coastal Norway have uncovered a Viking-Age grave that is forcing specialists to rethink what they know ...

Archaeologists discover a Viking grave in Senja containing the remains of a woman and a her beloved dog in a boat.

The burial site is located near a rural road in Norway. In 2023, metal detector enthusiasts scouring Norway’s remote Senja Island stumbled across a remarkable archeological find. While searching near ...

Archaeologists uncover a Viking grave with jewelry in Norway, revealing rare artifacts, and a well‑preserved skeleton.

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 10th-century Viking woman in Norway who was buried in a boat grave along with her pet dog, shedding more light on special funerary rituals reserved for ...

The saying goes that a dog is a man’s best friend, but an archaeological excavation in Norway proves that women care about their four-legged companions just as much as men do, even 1,100 years ago.

The elaborate burial and rich "grave goods" indicate the woman in the Viking Age boat-grave came from a wealthy social elite. (Image credit: The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT) Archaeologists ...

The newly uncovered Viking-era grave in central Norway is forcing archaeologists to rethink what they thought they knew about ...

Marianne Hem Eriksen leads the BODY-POLITICS project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no.