A newly translated runic inscription has shed 'compelling' new light on who might have owned the Galloway Hoard, experts have announced. The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than 11lbs (5kg ...

Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off the southeast coast of the mainland, surrounded by the Baltic Sea. It was ...

Researchers excavated the pieces and as they dug deeper into the pile, they found more than 10 pounds of artifacts carefully buried in a hoard. The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age.

The ancient runes of an inscribed silver armband found in a buried Viking treasure hoard in Scotland are helping to reveal more about a place and time nearly lost to history. “The hoard has a ripple ...

BBC Cymru Wales launches new eight-part podcast 10 years on from the Viking treasure hoard discovered in Herefordshire ...

Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was buried with belonged to an entire Viking community. The Galloway Hoard ...

This Viking hoard was discovered in 2007 in North Yorkshire. It was buried in AD 927 and contains 617 silver coins, which were tightly packed into a Frankish silver cup, along with silver bars ...

“The destruction of so many high-status objects, evident in this hoard, is also of a scale rarely seen in Iron Age Britain ...