An exhaustive analysis of the controversial Vinland Map has shown it to be a 20th-century forgery. “The Vinland Map is a fake,” Raymond Clemens, curator at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library ...

Archaeologists say the number of Viking warrior burials in Dublin is astounding. A project cataloging these burials began in 1999, with the results having been revealed in 2014. The 800-page tome, the ...

Two new studies add fresh fuel to a decades-old debate about whether a parchment map of the Vikings' travels to the New World, purportedly drawn by a 15th century scribe, is authentic or a forgery.

In the modern era, the European discovery of North American became a proxy for conflicts between American Protestants and Catholics, as well as northern Europeans who claimed Vikings like Leif ...

Marauding Norsemen from Scandinavia first came to this area on seasonal plundering voyages around the early 9th Century, and Viking remains continue to be discovered in the city today. If you are ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Lesson No. 1: Viking warriors didn’t wear horned helmets. “Viking helmets with horns ...

An archaeological dig of a well-known Viking settlement in the heart of Dublin City uncovered Ireland's oldest prison cells. The excavation took place on Ship Street - beside Dublin Castle - in March ...

It was hailed as the first proof of Viking exploration to the America and the earliest known map of the New World. Moreover, the Vinland Map was used by some to claim that the Vikings had discovered ...

Marauding Norsemen from Scandinavia first came to this area on seasonal plundering voyages around the early 9th Century, and Viking remains continue to be discovered in the city today. If you are ...