Cooking Gear Found In Graves Of Viking Men And Women “I think we need to move away from distinguishing between men’s and women’s roles during the Viking times,” she said. Moen has completed her Ph.D. on Viking Age gender roles at the University of Oslo. Her research shows that upper-class men and women generally were …

Huge Dinosaur Footprints Discovered on Scottish Coast MORE THAN 160 million years ago, long-necked dinosaurs called sauropods lumbered through the ancient lagoons that dotted what is now Great Britain. Now, dozens of their footprints have been found on the forbidding, wave-pounded coast of Scotland’s Isle of Skye. Researchers Davide Foffa and Hong-Yu Yi, University of …

Europe’s Oldest Mosque May Be Buried Underground in This Visigothic City in Spain Reccopolis,  a rural area outside of Madrid, has witnessed an extraordinary archaeological effort, with researchers arriving at an important finding using a geomagnetic instrument that helped map walls and other structures still buried underground. The ancient, 1,400-year-old city was found to have …

Remains of a medieval child found with other skeletons just yards from St Patrick’s grave in Northern Ireland The medieval skeletons were found beside Down Cathedral in Downpatrick, County Down. Archaeologists first thought they had found the lost cemetery of 13th Century Benedictine monks. But they have said the oldest skeleton is that of a …

The Irish Have Much More Viking DNA Than Previously Thought, Genetic Study Reveals An Irish Viking. The concept has become more real and more captivating. Anyone who’s read even a bit about the history of the Vikings knows that their DNA is likely to be found in people living in the British Isles today. New …

Anglo-Saxons were WORSE than the Vikings and carried out ‘ethnic cleansing’ According to a Danish academic who thinks disgruntled English monks spread ‘ false news ‘ about his ancestors, tales of vicious Vikings may be significantly exaggerated. The earlier Anglo-Saxons carried out ‘ethnic cleansing’ against native Britons, while the Vikings ushered in Scandinavian multi-cultural society, …

Ancient Well With Stone Stairs Unearthed in Scotland An ancient well at the top of one of Scotland’s most iconic mountain peaks has been unearthed for the first time in hundreds of years. Archaeologists from Aberdeen University’s Northern Picts projects made the incredible discovery this week at the Mither Tap, one of the summits of …

How The Black Death (Sort Of) Killed A Viking Colony And Transformed Europe Throughout much of the European Middle Ages, the Norse were compulsive travelers. These groups of people (who we often call “Vikings”) traded, raided and pillaged throughout Europe, settled in Constantinople and fought with and against the Byzantines, encountered Arab traders from Baghdad in modern Russia, and …

Billionaire-Owned Viking Cruises Involved In Collision, Leaving 7 ᴅᴇᴀᴅ And 21 Missing One of Viking’s river cruise ships was involved in a fatal collision on Wednesday night as it was traveling through Budapest on the Danube River, leaving at least seven ᴅᴇᴀᴅ. The Viking Sigyn, a 95-room river cruise ship, collided with a smaller sightseeing …