A researcher at a Swedish university says that Viking burial clothes bear the word “Allah”—and some people really want to believe her. But other experts are not sure the silk bears Arabic ...

In a surprising find by Swedish researchers, alleged Arabic characters were found woven into the burial costumes found from Viking boat graves, as well as the chamber grave clothing of central ...

due to frequent attacks reportedly perpetrated by the Vikings in the region. In the Valsgärde boat graves, just north of the key early Iron Age site Gamla Uppsala, silk is found in the clothing ...

The discovery of Arabic characters showing reverence to Allah embroidered in Viking funerary clothing has turned on its head hundreds of years of thinking about Scandinavians in history ...

“We do know that the Vikings took pride in their appearance, combed their hair, and ironed their clothes with hot rocks,” Fitzhugh said. “[They] now seem to have taken pain to decorate their ...

Inside the unusually well-preserved carved oak vessel were the skeletons of two women who had been richly buried with clothes ...

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