UNDATED (CNN) -- A sword is probably the last thing you'd expect to find on a hike -- especially one that's more than a millennium old. But that's what happened to a man in Norway who recently ...

A metal detector led to a "first of its kind" ancient discovery in the Netherlands. The finding turned out to be a 10th-century Viking sword fragment, the Fries Museum and the Fryske Akademy announced ...

A metal detectorist unearthed a Viking sword fragment shaped like wild boars, a first-of-its-kind find for the Netherlands, photos show. Photo from the Fries Museum On a farm in the Netherlands, a ...

An 8-year-old girl, originally from Minnesota, made a fantastic discovery playing in a Swedish lake: a pre-Viking era sword. Saga Vanecek, who lives with her family in Sweden after spending seven ...

I’m diving into the ANCIENT Viking Sword that used technology from the FUTURE – the Ulfberht Viking Sword! Dating from 800 to 1100 AD, these 170 blades found across Europe were forged with crucible ...

While scouring the land, something caused his metal detector to sound. After digging a little less than eight inches into the ground, Visser was met with an ancient object that was instantly ...