Norway's Viking Age landscapes including ship burial mounds could soon earn global recognition if authorities get their way.
“Our skipper said ‘Have you ever dived this mark? We said, ‘No, because it’s rubbish, there’s nothing there,’” Bournemouth University maritime archaeologist Tom Cousins recently told the BBC.
When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of ...
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Viking-age grave reveals a burial like nothing archaeologists have seen
The newly uncovered Viking-age grave in coastal Norway has stunned archaeologists, not because of its weapons or treasure, ...
More than a century after Norway's Gokstad ship burial was first excavated, scientists are examining the remains of the VIking chieftain buried inside and learning the truth about how he lived and ...
The first place new to me is Visby, on the large but low-lying Swedish island of Gotland. This former Viking stronghold and ...
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You'd never know these modern towns once helmed great empires
The Vikings weren’t a unified people, and Scandinavia was peppered with small, warring states ruled by kings, jarls and ...
KNIFE RIVER, Minn.– The near century old ship gifted from the city of Duluth is receiving its finishing touches from its ...
About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the ...
As the company’s 100th ship takes off, CEO Torstein Hagen discusses old cruise stereotypes, new destinations and staying true to the “Viking way.” Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent ...
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Ash Pendant: The only known depiction of a pregnant Viking woman
The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.
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