Norway Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - At Gjellestad in Norway, archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) have found a 60-meter longhouse. There is no longer

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Norwegian archaeologists have good reason to be excited about this latest discovery. With help of ground penetrating radar device scientists have discovered 15

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It’s a race against time and there isn’t much time left to uncover the secrets of a rare Norwegian Viking ship burial before

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Destruction of historical and archaeological sites happens much too often. This time a huge Viking burial complex in Norway has become the victim

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Anyone with the slightest knowledge of Viking Age history will know the Vikings were excellent craftsmen and merchants who established successful relationships and

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hundreds of rare and well-preserved artifacts have been revealed by the retreating mountain glaciers in the region of Lendbreen in Innlandet County, Norway.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists can now date some stave churches more accurately than in the past.  A non-destructive measurement method called photodendrometry was used by researchers,

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Viking Age mortuary house has been unearthed during an excavation of a Viking Age grave field on Vinjeøra in Hemne municipality in central

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Using ground-penetrating radar (GPR), scientists have discovered an unusual ship-shaped anomaly in Norway. They have reason to think this is a rare Viking burial.

AncientPages.com - Every now and then scientists discover something that forces them to re-write history. This has just happened in the case of Middle Ages altarpieces. It has long

AncientPages.com - Once again, it’s time to reconsider our understanding of Stone Age people who were much smarter than we think. In schools today, children learn that Stone people

AncientPages.com - Stones  exposed to strong heat, are often found on old farms and they originate from the Viking Age and even earlier. Long ago, Vikings and their descendants

AncientPages.com - 3,000-year-old graves have been unearthed in central Norway by archaeologists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Museum. Archaeologists consider them some of the oldest burial sites

AncientPages.com - Last year, archaeologists discovered the original shrine belonging to Viking King Olaf Haraldsson who was declared a saint in 1031. St. Olaf, as he is now known,