The Vikings were just another crowd ... This is not the wrath of God coming down, it's not an Ice Age descending. When pondering this extinction story, one has to consider a multiplicity of ...

"They didn't have the medical and dental care we do, or the kind of pain relief—and antibiotics—we now have," said Carolina Bertilsson.

During the summer of 2024, rapid melting at Norway's Lendbreen glacier led to a series of remarkable archaeological ...

Norway's glaciers have uncovered artifacts from the Stone Age, the Iron Age, the Middle Ages and the Viking Age.

Høegh, a powerfully built man with reddish blond hair and a trim beard—he could easily be cast as a Viking—is an agronomist ... land lies buried beneath an ice sheet up to two miles thick ...

Often "when we excavate bodies from the Viking age, we are lucky if there are just a few teeth," Lundø said to CNN. But in this case, the dampness of the region meant that for "long periods of ...