Collectively, these burials paint a picture that clashes violently with the hypermasculine image ... Viking burials aren't in great condition. The Birka burial is one example. In 1878, workers ...

Stock image: A man looking for treasure with a metal detector. A Viking Age coin hoard was found on the Isle of Man by two metal detectorists. Stock image: A man looking for treasure with a metal ...

A 1,000-year-old Viking relic, discovered in a ... have been used to make a stamped foil of thin metal which would display the pressed-out image,” he explained in a statement.

Workers carrying out dredging work in the Wisla River in the city of Wroclawek came across the 'perfectly preserved' sword after spotting 'an oblong, metal object' sticking out of the sediment.

Two metal detectorists who stole ... during the time of Alfred the Great. Image: A gold ring from the ninth century which was part of a £3m Viking hoard If they had declared the find, as the ...