It’s well established that Viking explorers made it to North America hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus. Recently discovered evidence, however, indicates Norse sailors weren’t only the ...

The Thule Inuit people and Norse both hunted walrus in the High Arctic in the 13th century, according to a new study. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

This article first appeared in print in the Stars and Stripes Global edition, Jan. 15, 2015. It is republished unedited in its original form. THULE AIR BASE, Greenland — On a bitter late September day ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut Territory — Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures. All his gear plunged into the water too, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Nungusuituq prints of Inuit life, image #, NMAI.AC.230; National Museum of the American Indian ...

In Medieval Europe, there was an enormous demand for elite products, among them - walrus ivory. With the Vikings playing a vital part in the ivory trade, this drove the Norse expansion into the north ...

Calling the disappearance of medieval Norse colonies from Greenland ” a classic pattern of resource depletion,” researchers from the universities of Cambridge, Oslo, and Trondheim found that, for ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut Territory (AP) -- Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures. All his gear plunged into the water ...