Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Parts of Greenland are becoming green again for the first time since the Vikings visited nearly 1,000 years ago, according to ...

Høegh, a powerfully built man with reddish blond hair and a trim beard—he could easily be cast as a Viking—is an agronomist and former chief adviser to Greenland's agriculture min­istry.

As US author Jared Diamond notes in his acclaimed 2005 bestseller, Collapse, Greenland’s history is marked by the notorious disappearance of its Viking Norse settlers, who lived on the island ...

They also share similarities with Viking artefacts found in Greenland and Poland. Initially, researchers thought that the discs were used by local communities as either calendars or as tools to ...

While similar modern devices do work successfully (as seen in the NOVA program "The Vikings"), many have questioned if the Greenland disc was actually used in this way. It is less than three ...

A Viking called Erik the Red discovered Greenland. It was Erick’s son, Leif Erikson, who sailed even further west and became the first European to visit the Americas. Leif had heard stories of ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America. 5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 ...

Vikings. They love what Barraclough calls the “soap opera lives” of Norse gods. And they love colorful characters such as Erik the Red (who named his settlement project Greenland to make it ...