Sleek wooden vessels like the Gokstad ship were key to the success of Viking traders and raiders. Unearthed in 1880 from a burial, the ninth-century ship was powered by sail and 32 oarsmen.

A Viking fleet nears home with slaves and other plunder in this imagined scene aboard an actual vessel—the ninth-century Gokstad ship. Sailors perched on movable storage chests while rowing.

Old Boat-Shaped Structure Found Inside a Volcanic Cave With Decorative Minerals Intrigues Archaeologists Apocalypse as a ...

The haul included ninth-century coins and some small lead weights ... preserved and eventually reconstructed in the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum. To learn more about Viking ship building the ...

The excavations revealed the graves of three highly respected and wealthy Viking women from the early ninth century ... in ...

NEIL OLIVER:One stormy day, sometime in the second half of the ninth century, a Viking ship sailing from Norway to the Faroe Islands was blown off course. After several more days sailing ...