Long before Christopher Columbus reached the Americas in 1492, Norse explorers had already crossed the North Atlantic through Iceland and Greenland. Accounts preserved in medieval sagas describe ...

Like the Pilgrims, the Viking settlers included both Christians and pagans. Like the Pilgrims, the Viking settlers faced ...

Vikings in America arrived centuries before Columbus. Explore the 1021 AD scientific proof and Norse artifacts found.

Thank you all for being here.  I will not continue in Icelandic, my dear Marco, and thank you especially for visiting Iceland.  I think that demonstrates also very well our close connections and good ...

Extra-long, region-immersive voyages, submarine dives, and new itineraries are helping drive demand for expedition says ...

These flourishing cruise regions are now offering an increasingly varied spread of itineraries, from Greenland and the Great Lakes to Micronesia and the Mekong.

Discover the Viking longship, a marvel of Norse engineering that forged a maritime empire. Explore its revolutionary design, ...

Using micro-drills, scientists extract material from an otolith’s individual annual rings to measure ocean chemistry year by ...

The deal settled who owns Greenland. The focus should shift to something far more productive: building a durable relationship ...

The Heian period.Nobles dressed in twelve-layered ceremonial kimonos. Splendid court culture. And The Tale of Genji, written ...

A skeleton reveals a lost Norse church near Erik the Red’s Greenland settlement, offering new clues to medieval power struggles and Viking history.

The discovery of a medieval church in Greenland has revealed important clues about how Viking society on the island was organized more than 800 years ago, the National Museum of Denmark said.