Dozens of ancient coins believed to have been stolen by Roman troops during the conquest of Britain have been unearthed in a ...

Louis died in 840 A.D. Overall, Diinhoff said that trade between the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings was not uncommon, though not all "trade" was necessarily voluntary. He believes that the coins in the ...

Three high-status women, though perhaps not Scandinavians themselves, were, or perhaps were not, interred there.

A rare coin minted by a Viking warlord after he became a Christian ... Previously, an item was categorised as treasure if it was at least 300 years old and made in part of precious metal, such ...

Diinhoff also believes one coin is the “most remarkable find” at Skumsnes—a rare variant from the Danish Viking town of either Hedeby or Ribe. This, along with what appear to be other silver ...

Archaeologists have unearthed coins, jewelry and stones from graves in Norway that likely belonged to high-status Viking ...

Two men have been charged after a hoard of Viking coins worth nearly £1m was found ... Craig Best, 44 and of Bishop Auckland, and 73-year-old Roger Pilling, of Loveclough, are accused of ...

By the time it was buried, it was probably already 100-years-old. The coins date from the late 9th and early 10th centuries, and bear Islamic, Christian, and pre-Christian Norse pagan symbols.

Archaeologists have confirmed that an ancient grave site unearthed recently in western Norway contains the remains of wealthy Viking women buried alongside jewellery, silver coins, and other ...