The public can find out how a Viking hoard feels when replicas of the treasure, discovered in Herefordshire, are made available for close-up inspection. The actual hoard, found 10 years ago, is on ...

Researchers at Vrak – Museum of Wrecks, in Stockholm, hope to get funds to excavate a 15th-century shipwreck from the waters ...

Modern replicas have achieved speeds ... turned up on the grounds of the very museum being built to house other Viking boats. The modern phase of Viking ship investigation began with the recovery ...

A more than 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden isn't a Viking vessel after all, scientists have found.

To learn more about Viking ship building the museum has since built a replica of the small warship, known as Skuldelev 5, using Viking techniques. Following on from this success they are now ...

Photograph by GABRIEL HILDEBRAND-SWEDISH HISTORY MUSEUM/CC BY (SWORD ... bystanders watch a replica Viking ship navigate the currents on a summer afternoon. Photograph by David Guttenfelder ...

It is a carving in oak of the head and neck of some beaked creature which formed either the figurehead or the stern-post of a Viking ship. Its precise purpose is at present uncertain. The animal ...

"It's an open boat. You sleep under the stars and when it's raining or windy you can feel the elements." A tourist has died after the replica of a Viking ship she was sailing on hit rough seas ...

The team building the replica of a famous Anglo-Saxon burial ... "Maybe we'll get across to Denmark and have a drag race with the Viking ships." The ship is between 50 and 60% complete and reaches ...