In order to widen a road in Sweden, archaeologists began excavating a large burial ground — but what they found surprised them. The burial ground in Västmanland had around 100 graves and two burial ...

A family in Norway have found a grave in their backyard while preparing the area to build a house extension. Oddbjørn Holum Heiland began digging behind his house in Setesdal on Friday night when he ...

Archaeologists in Sweden excavating a Viking grave field have uncovered two burials containing swords standing upright. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Viking sword encrusted in clay. While clearing a field on his farm, a Norwegian man discovered a rare Viking Age sword that's ...

ATLANTA — What do you know about Vikings? Did they wear horned helmets, carry large swords, and raid and pillage everything in their path on their journeys across the high seas? That’s part of their ...

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Trevor Penny was magnet fishing in an English waterway near Oxford when he pulled out a rusty sword. Experts say it’s a Viking sword that is probably more than 1,000 years old. By Isabella Kwai ...

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Archaeologists unearthed a pair of 1,200-year-old Viking-age swords standing upright from a stone grave in a burial mound in Västmanland. Photo from Arkeologerna and Sweden's National Historical ...