The Viking Age saw the pillaging of the British Isles, France, and the Mediterranean until inequality, Christianity, and sex ended the era.

Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings. When did the Viking Age begin? How do we know about the Vikings? Where did ...

What would a Viking feast have been like? When would this get-together be held, what types of food would likely be served ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the ...

Long before Copenhagen, Roskilde stood at the heart of Danish power, guarding a shallow fjord that shaped kings, wars, and trade across the North Sea. Using chronicles, archaeology, and the famous ...

Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating stories of love, loss and epic battles.

New research has revealed the horrors of the Viking age, as the study of skulls showed evidence of devastating disease and infections. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden used ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers—and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the realities ...

A hill on the west Cumbrian coast could be the long-sought burial mound of Ivarr the Boneless, one of the most powerful ...

Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings. When did the Viking Age begin? How do we know about the Vikings? Where did ...