The near-2,000-year-old cache included swords and chainmail, and offers a unique window into the Nordic community that lived there. Reading time 3 minutes A team of archaeologists uncovered a trove of ...

Archaeologists in Denmark were astonished to uncover a massive cache of Iron Age weapons in Denmark at an “infrastructure sight” in the town of Hedensted, Ancient Origins reported. The find included ...

Archaeologists in Denmark uncovered dozens of 1,500-year-old weapons, a rare chainmail shirt and other artifacts buried by an ancient chief. Photo from the Vejle Museums An ancient chieftain gathered ...

In the late 1920s, a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered in the western Iranian province of Luristan, near the border with Iraq. They dated from the Iron Age and demonstrated how the ...

HEDENSTED, DENMARK—Gizmodo reports that more than 100 items, including lances; spears; swords; knives; arrowheads; an ax; chainmail armor; and fragments of a bugle and a bridle were unearthed in ...

“Not often does nature reveal to us the secrets of the distant past,” the Museum of the History of Kamień Land remarked after a Baltic Sea storm tore into a cliffside in West Pomerania, Poland, and ...

Excavations near Hedensted, Denmark, during the expansion of a freeway revealed several "well-preserved" ancient artifacts from the Iron Age that seemed to have been buried intentionally thousands of ...

Imaging technology has revealed that ancient swords smuggled into the UK recently have been altered by modern-day forgers, who replaced many of the original iron blades with bronze ones. What’s more, ...

An ancient chieftain gathered the community and gave them instructions: bury dozens and dozens of weapons as a sacrificial offering. The community complied. Over 1,500 years later, archaeologists in ...