The Vikings were not all bloodthirsty raiders. Some came to fight, but others came to Britain to live peacefully. Viking Who were they? What did they do? King The most powerful person in all the ...

Mystery over Viking treasure solved after runic inscription deciphered - Experts have theorised who owned the treasure which ...

Revelatory new DNA analysis has suggested that people with Nordic heritage could be found in Britain centuries before the Vikings first arrived. According to this new analysis, the Nordic presence ...

The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than ... which did not correspond to any language spoken in early medieval Britain or Ireland. The discovery that the final rune, F, was marked out ...

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of metal detectorist George Powell who stole a hoard of gold coins and jewellery ...

Archaeologists believe that a massive grave in a vicarage garden in Derbyshire may be the last resting place of a vast army of thousands of warriors that invaded Britain in the ninth century.

A lost Viking army which was a "key part" of the creation of England may have been identified by archaeologists. More than 250 skeletons found at St Wystan's church, Repton, Derbyshire ...

George Powell was ordered to appear in court earlier this month for failing to repay £600,000 he pocketed from illegally ...

A University of Winchester academic has become the consultant for a new French docudrama series on the Vikings and their 'Empire of the North Sea'. Professor of Early Medieval history, Ryan Lavelle, ...

including the discovery that many individuals found in two late Viking-age mass graves in Britain had a genetic makeup typical of Viking-age southern Scandinavia. This suggests that these ...