The Vikings were responsible for crafting some weapons that smiths still look back on with admiration today — but did that ingenuity extend to also ...

Others stuck with the Viking theory, while some said the corpse was that of a Native American who had gotten his armor from Europeans. No one knows. No one knew in 1831.

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation".

But there is evidence of body modification. Archaeologists in the 1980s noted "strange marks" on the teeth of male Viking Age skulls that looked like the teeth had been deliberately filed.Some 130 ...

Millennia-Old Headgear Is One of Just Two (Almost) Intact Viking Helmets A new study dates a piece of armor found in Britain in the 1950s to the tenth century A.D.