Viking officially named their newest two river cruise ships for the Nile this week. While one of the ships was already in service, Viking Sobek has yet to ...

An ocean-going Viking ship is being excavated south of ... two months after he set off. Time-lapse images show the Northern Lights on the outskirts of the capital Reykjavik. Storm Kirk has been ...

Ground-penetrating radar survey at Gjellestad, Norway In the 9th Century the Vikings started using sails, but they still needed strong rowers too for their epic voyages. In their longships they ...

Indeed, the Viking Age, from A.D. 800-1100, was the age of the sleek, speedy longship. Without this crucial advance in ship technology, the Vikings would never have become a dominant force in ...

The sequence of pictures illustrates the development of Scandinavian boats that were ancestors to the Viking longships. The long, slender hull is key to their performance. The top diagram is of a ...

Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland provides the magical setting for a new festive treat which opens this Saturday and its ...

The Viking Vili is one of Viking's Longships, and it carries 50 crew members. Launched in 2015, the ship set sail as part of Viking River Cruises' massive fleet-development program. The company ...

Listen (13:57) The exhibit includes more than 300 artifacts from 9 countries, including a reproduction of a Viking longship. The "Mjøsen Lange" was built on the west coast of Norway in 1995 ...