For over a century, the Hjortspring boat has sat in the National Museum of Denmark. The wooden boat was made during the Iron ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included the site where a young George Washington stopped a friendly fire incident, the ...

Abstract: Large ship targets in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images have characteristics, such as large image proportions, rich features, and large feature differences in a single target. Existing ...

Maritime law requires every captain to assist anyone in distress at sea. By delegating the coordination of rescue operations to actors who flout this law, European states have abandoned the ...

Commanded by the fearsome Bjorn Ironside and Hastein, Viking longships headed to the Mediterranean in the 850s. Their mission? To capture the riches of Rome. Ruling the wavesAlbert Goodwin’s ...

An impressive ax head is one of hundreds of Viking artifacts found during excavations under the streets of Dublin. When Irish archaeologists working under Dublin’s South Great George’s Street just ...

Despite being synonymous with the Viking Age, Norway currently has no Viking sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. This is why that could soon change. This week, Norway’s Directorate for Cultural ...

When I opened my email, late on a Tuesday night, to find an invitation to a Viking Ship Naming Ceremony, I RSVP’d yes before reading past the subject line and burst into my bedroom, where my partner ...