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On a remote island in northern Norway, metal detectorists stumbled upon a pair of bronze treasures. The small artifacts ...
Archaeologists started excavating the massive farm in 2020 and spent years cleaning, analyzing and documenting their hundreds ...
All that you've heard about the Vikings may not be true.
The Vikings considered silver artifacts valuable and typically used them for trading or gifting. Excavations at the 1,100-year-old farm also found several structures for people, possibly enslaved ...
The study also hinted at the grim reality of life for many newborn infants arriving into the world during the Viking Age.
Fitzhugh says the artifacts shed light on the softer ... a Celtic box and beads from the Mediterranean. The Vikings mastered the art of boat building, allowing them to sail from their homes ...
The artifact was cleaned using a micro-blade ... However, the animal-centric style, at least in some cases, appeared to live on in viking art even after their conversion to Christianity, according ...
at least in art and stories, be engaged with violence and weapons. These were not passive bodies. Together with recent studies of Viking women buried as warriors, this provokes further thought to ...
The rare unearthing occurred at a Viking-era burial site Åsum near Odense ... archeologists uncovered several centuries old artifacts ranging from knives and glass pearls to brooches dating ...
A passerby discovered a rare Viking-era iron bracelet in a wetland on the Swedish island of Öland. The open-ended bracelet style is rare in large part because of the use of iron. Officials plan ...