The Vikings were one of the most dominant forces in Western Europe from the 9th until the 11th centuries. They were able to ...

From their mastery of the seas to their influence over lands as far from home as Russia and North America, the Scandinavian raiders known as the Vikings shaped the world for centuries. Swift and ...

Life as a Viking was never easy. Days were spent rowing longships, creating intricate art, or telling stories about duels between gods and giants. Their legacy, however, extends beyond the bloody ...

Reenactors in Poland don armor in preparation for close combat ... pieces for his personal collection of exotic, foreign art. The Vikings, says archaeologist Steve Ashby with the University ...

At Hyperallergic, we strive to make art more inclusive ... The truth is, the Viking textile from Birka has no Arabic on it at all. Evidence for contact between the Vikings and the Islamic world ...

Vikings did not wear much armour. Some chieftains wore mail coats, made of thousands of metal rings but most relied on a round wooden shield for protection since these were very expensive ...

Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act. By Walker Mimms ...

From the eighth to 11th centuries, as Norsemen from Scandinavia conducted raids into Europe and elsewhere, they became known as Vikings—named after a place called viken in the Oslo fjord.

Your support makes all the difference. 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 ...

Raiding was an important part of Viking life and every year boats full of scary Viking warriors would sail across the sea from Norway to attack monasteries such as the one on the island of Iona.

Around the same time that primaljort came up with their Muk and Grimer fan art, they also devised unique Viking-inspired versions of Machop and its evolutions, coming up with muscular creatures that ...

We might be starting to see some cracks in the Vikings’ armor. For a second straight game, quarterback Sam Darnold recorded an interception while throwing fewer than two touchdowns. Even with ...