The museum, with its animatronic residents, time cars and recreated street scenes from Viking York, stunned the world. It has since been visited by nearly 20 million people - and has inspired ...

A new Viking exhibition is set to open in York – bringing the largest display of Norse objects in England to the city. Viking North opens at the Yorkshire Museum on Friday, July 11. The ...

I’d like to raise a tankard of mead to toast the Jorvik Viking Centre in York as our pioneering visitor attraction celebrates its 40th anniversary this week. I hesitate to call Jorvik a museum.

Discover 2,000 years of history amid the picturesque streets of York. A Roman fortress, then a Viking stronghold, followed by a Medieval wool-trading center, then an Industrial railway hub, and ...

In an accidental find, a 10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in ...

York, once known as Jorvik, was a thriving Viking hub that connected Europe, Asia, and Africa through trade and governance. Exotic goods like silk and silver flowed into its markets, but so did ...

The 30 Viking graves range from richly furnished to bare-bones, hinting at a burial ground for both nobles and the people ...

Like many aspects of Viking culture, the origins of the Ulfberht sword are shadowy. Some 170 examples bearing the inscription have been found across Europe, though many have their letters spelled ...

Ms. Kokora, the museum director, described the elusive 10th-century settlement as a “medieval New York on the Baltic” — a trading entrepôt with a mixed population of Vikings, Germanic ...