Ribe was an important trading town in the Viking Age. At the beginning of the 8th century, a trading place was established on the north side of the river Ribe, to which traders and craftsmen flocked ...

York’s Viking history is part of the show in London, reports GAVIN AITCHISON. FROM the smallest of beads to the vast longboat, it is impossible not to be impressed. The artefacts, archaeological finds ...

Just before the Covid-19 pandemic paralysed the whole world, Cat Jarman arrived in Gujarat to begin her first visit to India. A bioarchaeologist whose day job involves sifting through ancient ...

The Viking Age bead makers were more advanced than previously believed. A new interdisciplinary study shows that around year 700 AD, craftsmen in Ribe, Denmark, used surprisingly sophisticated and ...

FROM the smallest of beads to the vast longboat, it is impossible not to be impressed. The artefacts, archaeological finds and anecdotes brought together by the British Museum in “Vikings: Life and ...