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Vikings Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have located a unique Viking Age shipyard site at Birka on Björkö in Lake Mälaren. The discovery challenges previous theories about how
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It happens every now and then that Viking swords are discovered but this finding is unique! As scientists ask - "What are the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It has happened in the past that archaeological discoveries have confirmed events described in Norse Sagas. We know for example that Norse Sagas
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have finished the first excavations of the magnificent Gjellestad Viking ship burial in Norway and scientists have presented some of the most
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An interesting archaeological discovery shedding light on Viking presence in Estonia has been reported by archaeologists excavating in the country's capital Tallinn. Archeologists
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 1953 while clearing the ground in Borgund on the west coast of Norway strange debris was discovered. Archaeologists came to the site
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Very few people in England ate large amounts of meat before the Vikings settled, and there is no evidence that elites ate more
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The 1,000-year-old Viking Weaver's sword is a true archaeological treasure. The sword is a little over 30 cm in length and made of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings were not a uniform phenomenon in ancient Scandinavia. They were part of a complex system of plunder economy that existed in Europe
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Viking Gjermundbu helmet is one of the most valuable Viking Age artifacts ever discovered. Over the years, archaeologists have discovered many precious Viking
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New evidence from the bottom of a lake in the remote North Atlantic Faroe Islands indicates that an unknown band of humans settled
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Mobility shaped the human world profoundly long before the modern age. But archaeologists often struggle to create a timeline for the speed and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For decades, historians have debated whether an infamously violent Viking torture ritual ever really happened, or if it was a misunderstood or embellished
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. The Vikings got there centuries before, although exactly when has remained unclear. Here,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 1,000 years ago, two Vikings from the same family traveled abroad to fight. One of the Viking warriors went to England where
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New detailed surveys of Viking age ship settings in Hjarnø, Denmark have been completed by archaeologists examining the origins and makeup of the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As the ice melts scientists have a good opportunity to discover prehistoric objects that were once used on a daily basis by ancient
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When you’re an archaeologist you may have to wait a long time before you find something of historical value. Norwegian archaeologists had been
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Sometimes one should think twice before throwing away objects that may appear to have no value. About 40 years ago, farmer Håkan Linder
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are still many beautiful Viking Age treasures waiting to be discovered and one of them has just been unearthed on a farm
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News
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
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Civilizations
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a careful interdisciplinary study of rare shields finds, researchers are finally able to reveal the last piece of the puzzle of how
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A fascinating DNA study of more than 400 Viking skeletons has just re-written history. Today we know with certainty some Vikings were not
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Found in the 1950s by workmen digging pipe trenches in Chapel Yard, Yarm, near the River Tees, in the UK, this ancient helmet
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are not many Viking ship burials in Sweden, or anywhere else for that matter. Viking ship burials are rare finds and whenever
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings were masters of the oceans. They traveled far and reached new lands because their longships were fast and could sail in shallow
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