An investigation into Viking skeletons reveals a hidden story of violence, power, and the surprising differences between ...

A Viking chieftain named Halfdann, the putative murderer of Warrior 295, led his warriors north into Northumbria, where they formed part of a larger Viking zone in England known as the Danelaw.

The mounting evidence increasingly pointed to an astonishing conclusion: this was a mass grave of Viking warriors. In the late eighth century a.d., the Vikings—a Scandinavian people from Denmark ...