Rachel Morgan

The Vikings erected thousands of monumental runestones around the Viking world. What can they tell us about life in the Viking Age?

In the 1960s, Anne and Helge Ingstad discovered an 11th-century Viking settlement in L’Anse aux Meadows, Canada, proving that the Vikings made it to North America.

At the end of the 1930s, an Anglo-Saxon ship burial emerged from a mound in Suffolk. The rich assortment of medieval grave goods offered valuable insights into the Anglo-Saxon world.

New archaeological tools continue to give archaeologists innovative means of interrogating the past. These advances bring experts closer than ever to understanding the Viking world.

The Bayeux Tapestry is a medieval treasure that reveals the history of the Norman conquest of England in extraordinary detail.

Construction in York, England unearthed a Viking Age town called Jorvik. Archaeological excavations revealed an Anglo-Norse world rich with information about the past.

Brimming with silver and gold, Viking treasure hoards never fail to intrigue when they emerge from the earth. Their deposition reveals the wealth and instability of the medieval Norse world.

Vikings reproduced Thor’s legendary hammer, Mjolnir, across the medieval world. These artifacts shed light on Norse beliefs across space and time.