A METAL detectorist has accidentally discovered a 1000-year-old Viking sword fragment with unique animal carvings. The incredible discovery was made by a treasure hunter Sander Visser while ...

"By combining our areas of expertise, we can study this find from various angles, namely from the Frisian context, the Viking world, and from sword traditions," said Dr. Diana Spiekhout ...

Two wounds in the skull were probably made by a spear, and marks on the spine ... looked as if they had been struck by swords. Could this have been a Viking attack on a monastery?

One such moment happened in 2022 when a museum employee diving in Poland’s Supraśl River stumbled upon a relic lost for centuries — a Viking-era sword. Two years later, after painstaking ...