National Geographic has the details of a recent expedition to Point Rosee, Newfoundland, as well as a map showing the two settlement locations in relation to each other. This specific site was chosen ...

An exhaustive analysis of the controversial Vinland Map has shown it to be a 20th-century forgery. “The Vinland Map is a fake,” Raymond Clemens, curator at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library ...

Archaeologists have discovered a Viking-era settlement as well as almost a dozen human skeletons from a later time period during a dig conducted ahead of planned roadwork. A team of researchers made ...

The Viking Age, typically dated from the late 8th century to the early 11th century, marked a period of intense maritime activity across Europe. Norse seafarers from present-day Norway, Denmark, and ...

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In A.D. 993, a storm on the sun released an enormous pulse of radiation that was absorbed and stored by trees all over the Earth. Now, that solar event has proved a critical tool in pinpointing an ...