A large, gold Viking ring crafted from twisted metal strands and estimated to have belonged to a powerful Viking chief was discovered in the bundle of jewellery purchased by Mari Ingelin Heskestad.

A short entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle describes how in 789AD Viking ships landed on Britain's shores and immediately killed a local official who welcomed them. This was just the beginning of what ...

Buried in a pile of costume jewelry was an ancient gold ring that archaeologists say once belonged to a powerful Viking chief. Mari Ingelin Gausvik Heskestad, from Norway, spotted the ring among cheap ...

An unidentified man found the armlet in a wetland last fall. Kalmar County Administrative Board Last fall, a Swedish man spotted something in a marsh on Oland, Sweden’s second-largest island. At first ...

The discovery of an Islamic inscription on a ring inside a Viking coffin has confirmed ancient tales about contact between Viking Age Scandinavia and the Islamic world. The silver ring, recovered from ...