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 ...

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 ...

A farmer clearing a field in Norway picked up metal “trash” and found a rare 1,000-year-old weapon, archaeologists said and photos show. Photo from the Rogaland County Municipality In a southern ...

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 ...

In 2014, metal detectorists in the Scottish countryside unearthed an extraordinary trove of Viking-era treasures, which came to be known as the Galloway Hoard. Dozens of centuries-old artifacts were ...