Archaeologists excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

A ninth-century grave discovered in Norway held the remains of a Viking Age woman whose mouth was covered with two large scallop shells.

Roy Søreng, a local metal detectorist, found a Viking Age brooch in Norwegian soil. When he called archaeologists to the site ...

A Viking woman found in Norway with scallop shells over her mouth leaves experts puzzled about the meaning behind this burial ...

A well-preserved Viking Age grave featuring a previously unknown funerary ritual in Norway has been excavated in the locality ...

Archaeologists in Aarhus, Denmark, reported finding graves of 77 Viking in a medieval churchyard – a single site that ...

Archaeologists in Norway found a 1,200-year-old Viking woman's grave with mysterious scallop shells over her mouth. Discover ...

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

Additional discoveries included the remains of horses and riders buried alongside each other, along with their equipment.

It was a place where Kings, Picts and Vikings mingled and the powerful wished to be seen, both in life and in death. Govan on ...

Experts at the National Library of Norway believe the liturgical songbook was made by a local artisan around A.D. 1200.

Archaeologists have unearthed dozens of "unusual" Viking burial plots, as well as artifacts, which are spread over nine ...