Metal detectorist Sverre Næsheim visited a farm in Hovland in 2019 and unearthed an ancient gold item known as a “gullgubbe,” or gold foil, the Cultural Heritage Office of Vestfold County Municipality ...

Dazzling eruptions draw visitors to places like Iceland and Hawaii. Here’s how to see them safely. Lava flows create a map-like pattern on black basalt rocks at Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall ...

Iceland Airwaves has announced more artists for its 2025 festival, taking place in Reykjavík from 6-8 November. TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, high-energy US hip-hop duo Joey Valance & Brae, and ...

Pakistan has rejected as "baseless" claims by a senior Indian Army officer that Islamabad had attempted to target the Golden Temple, with drones and missiles in Amritsar city of India's Punjab ...

AHMEDABAD, India — A man gives his passport to a Hindu priest at a temple in this western Indian city. For a fee of about $2, the priest prays to the monkey god Hanuman for the man's visa application ...

What it tells us about the past: More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway. Inside the unusually well-preserved ...

The Fagradalsfjall Volcano, a raised crater of bubbling lava—glowing bright yellow in an expanse of dark gray—is the latest eruption heralding Iceland’s new period of volcanic activity.

Among the first things you see on a visit to the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik are skeletons: the remains of two bodies lying in the ground in which they were found. One is a woman ...

Iceland made their Eurovision debut in 1986, and have since competed 36 times only missing out in 1998 and 2002. They have yet to win, and the country's best result is second place, which it ...

Well, it is not that simple. The word garður, or garden, holds more meaning in Old Norse. It can mean a wall made of stone without mortar, that is, a fence. In the medieval period farmsteads would ...