While scouring the land, something caused his metal detector to sound. After digging a little less than eight inches into the ground, Visser was met with an ancient object that was instantly ...

Sam Swalley takes no bull. With a sword in hand, the bear of a man gathered his strength and dealt a crushing blow to his opponent's head. This was not a 10th-century Viking battle. Swalley, the Fargo ...

A man digging in his yard to build an extension of his house in southern Norway has unearthed the 1,100-year-old grave of a Viking warrior who was buried with weapons. The finds include a rusty iron ...

A construction crew dredging the Vistula River in Włocławek found a 1,000-year-old Viking weapon in the mud, photos show and archaeologists said. Photo from the Provincial Office for the Protection of ...

A metal detector led to a "first of its kind" ancient discovery in the Netherlands. The finding turned out to be a 10th-century Viking sword fragment, the Fries Museum and the Fryske Akademy announced ...

While dredging a river in Poland, a construction crew accidentally hauled up a medieval weapon. Archaeologists identified the artifact as a rare Viking sword, photos show. Sławomir Mularski and his ...