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1,000-year-old 'king' game piece with a distinctive hairstyle is 'as close as we will ever get to a portrait of a Viking'
Credit: Roberto Fortuna, National Museum of Denmark The 1,000-year-old "king" piece from a Viking board game is one of the ...
The piece was found along with “six bone buttons, a bone die and whetstone, all deposited in a steatite bowl,” according to a study published Aug. 11 by museum researcher Peter Pentz in the ...
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Forget the wild-haired savages. Here’s what Vikings really looked like
When Vikings did depict people, the results were usually generic. The crude faces stamped onto coins were symbols of power, ...
Denmark's National Museum recently unveiled a first-of-its-kind figurine belonging to an ancient Viking board game.
The giant chess piece standing outside the World Chess Hall of Fame in the Central West End is in check. At 20 feet tall, the wood king piece is officially the world’s largest, certified by Guinness ...
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