On a foggy morning off Norway’s craggy coast, a square-rigged clinker boat—a descendant of Viking craft—glided between islands. No compass guided its crew. No engine rumbled below deck. Instead, Greer ...

After ancient artifacts are discovered, where do they go? Aside from a minority of pieces sitting in personal collections or artifacts being studied in the lab, many items make their way from a buried ...

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 ...