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Vikings Archive
Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One of the most famous runestones, the Rök stone reveals Vikings feared climate change. Located in Östergötland County, Sweden, the - Rök Stone (in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Viking hoard was a national treasure and should have belonged to the public, but it was stolen by greedy metal detectorists
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A high-resolution georadar has detected traces of a ship burial and a settlement that probably dates to the Viking Period at Edøy in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two people died roughly 100 years apart. Nevertheless, they were buried together - in boats. In the second half of the 9th century,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Located in the Baltic Sea, Saaremaa is the largest Estonian island. Archaeologists can now investigate two large hoards of silver coin that will offer
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Fragments of some 100 Viking swords (and a few spearheads), have been unearthed in two closely located sites in a coastal area of
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - School children in Sweden have accomplished what adults failed to do. A group of fifth-grade students deciphered runes that were previously impossible to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Modern people enjoy chess as much as our ancestors did. It is an ancient game that originated in the Islamic world. During the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New research has found that the population of Ireland was in serious decline for almost 200 years before the Vikings settled. Previously it
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two full-sized Viking burial ships have been discovered in the Swedish municipality of Uppsala, located in the central part of the country. According
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study conducted by Marianne Moen of the University of Oslo shows that gender roles during Viking times were not nearly as
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Archaeology
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.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Vikings invaded England in the 9th and 10th centuries. They plundered, raped and burned towns to the ground. Or at least, this
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - To A Viking a sword was much more than a deadly weapon. It was a symbol of power and it was believed that Vikings believed a man
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - It’s certainly doesn’t happen every day that we come across, Viking artifacts, especially not swords. But Saga Vanecek, an 8-year old girl in Sweden managed to do
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An amateur archaeologist has discovered a spectacular ancient gold treasure. The Hjarnø treasure consists of over 32 pieces of jewelry including gold and pearls, dating 1,500 years.
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What could the Vikings possibly know about the lost legendary mythical land of Atlantis? Our first thought is that they were not familiar with
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - It’s still possible to find interesting runes in Scandinavia. While excavating in Norrköping, Sweden, archaeologists had unearthed unusual runes that seem to have been deliberately created to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mysterious crystal sunstones are mentioned in many Icelandic Sagas. Long considered mythological objects, there is reason to believe that legendary Viking Sunstones did exist
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Dublin have discovered 11th-century Viking village with graffiti and unique artifacts. According to researchers, the discovery is an “extraordinary find”. As previously mentioned on
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - During the Viking Age females took part in battles and women could become great warriors. Archaeologists have examined an ancient tomb in the Viking town of Birka.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Historical records state that the Viking Great Army wintered in Repton, Derbyshire, in 873 A.D. and drove the Mercian king into exile. Using radiocarbon dating scientists have
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Spruce Hill is not only one of the most important archaeological sites in North America, but also of the greatest ancient mysteries in Ohio.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Vikings played an important role in the history of Ireland. The Norsemen founded many of the island nation’s towns and cities, including its capital,
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Most agree today that Christopher Columbus was not the first person to discover America. Who exactly discovered America and when is still a subject
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A decorative fitting from a book, originally from Ireland, has been unearthed during the expansion of Byneset Cemetery, nearby to the medieval Steine Church, built in the
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Archaeology
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
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When Spanish Conquistadors encountered natives in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1543, they were told a tribe of giants once inhabited the Indians’ land. These horrifying
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