50 Volunteers Dug Up a Farm and Discovered an Ancient Viking Structure
The remnants of a large late-Viking-age hall were recently uncovered by a volunteer archaeology group at a farm in Silloth, Cumbria. The load-bearing timber found there was carbon dated to ...
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50 well-preserved Viking Age skeletons unearthed in Denmark
Denmark's third-largest city. Experts hope to conduct DNA analyses and possibly reconstruct detailed life histories, as well as looking into social patterns in Viking Age, such as kinship ...
The Viking age is welcoming a new kind of hero: women
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.
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Secrets of Norse Ships
Indeed, the Viking Age, from A.D. 800-1100 ... began with the recovery of five vessels at Skuldelev in Roskilde fjord, Denmark, between 1957 and 1962. The excavation involved building a coffer ...
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A Viking Age skeleton discovery could shed light on ancient DNA
Archeologists in Denmark have made one of the most notable ... Often "when we excavate bodies from the Viking age, we are lucky if there are just a few teeth," Lundø said to CNN.