Archaeologists have recently uncovered a Viking sword in Turkey that is believed to date back to the 9th or 10th Century AD. The sword was discovered during excavations in the city of Patara, which ...

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

A 1,200 year old viking sword described as being in "quite extraordinary" condition was discovered in Norway by a hiker, it has been revealed. According to a new report, the sword was discovered by ...

When we look at the history of new technologies, we tend to think of only our most recent past. But more than a thousand years ago, blacksmiths succeeded in making a set of ultra-strong swords — that ...

An eight-year-old girl has discovered a pre-Viking-era sword in a Swedish lake, prompting locals to name her the “Queen of Sweden.” Swedish-American Saga Vanecek found the ancient artifact while ...

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) The Vikings were among the fiercest warriors of all time. Yet only a select few carried the ultimate weapon of their era: the feared ...

When Goran Olsen stopped for a rest while hiking through the mountains and plateaus of Haukeli, an area about 150 miles west of the Norwegian capital Oslo, he never expected to uncover a sword under a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SOUTHERN NORWAY — Two reindeer hunters ...

Good news everyone, we have a new world leader! An 8-year-old girl pulled an ancient Viking sword out of a lake during her summer vacation, securing her destiny as savior of the world. Saga Vanecek — ...

Earlier this year, 8-year-old girl Saga Vanecek discovered an ancient sword while skipping rocks at Vidöstern lake. The artifact, which she at first assumed was a stick of some kind, turns out to be a ...

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