TOKYO >> Hills of white scallop shells were piling up in Yubetsu, a town facing the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido. They looked like out-of-season snow mounds. The shells blanketed every free space on a ...

The grave looked, at first, like a familiar Viking Age burial: a woman laid to rest with care, surrounded by objects meant to speak for her in death. Then archaeologists brushed away the soil around ...

Archaeologists in coastal Norway have uncovered a Viking-Age grave that is forcing specialists to rethink what they know about death, ritual, and identity in the early medieval north. At the center of ...