Forget wooden swords or Norse-inspired bangles – visitors are being offered 'souvenirs for life' at this year’s Jorvik Viking Festival.

Step into rural life as wood is split by hand using the Viking Wood Splitter. Watch Nicole Coenen work through seasoned logs with the Viking splitting sword, highlighting a practical and time-tested ...

A Norwegian archaeologist believes that the Norwegians were on their way to the Roman Empire as mercenaries around the year ...

At the top of Newgate Street, Bishop Auckland opens up into a historic marketplace that extends between the town hall – a ...

It doesn't fly as high as the original Dragon, but it still gets pretty far up there.

The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been discovered by archaeologists working in the Scottish Highlands. The 5m-long grave contained the remains of a high status Viking, ...

The Roman Empire's naval bases probably gave them the idea for similar structures in southern and western Norway.