Monday, 30 January 2017

How Much Viking Lore Is True?

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Archaeologists have confirmed key details in Norse oral histories (but not the dragons, elves, and trolls). In TV series from  V...

Spectacular Viking manor discovered near Birka

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A large Viking manor has been found near the ancient town of Birka in Lake Mälaren. Birka, on the island of Björkö in Lake Mälaren, 40...

'Warrior Of High Status' Was Buried At Scottish Viking Boat Burial Site

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The excavation of a rare, intact Viking boat burial in western Scotland has been set out in detail for the first time. The boat burial...
Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Scientists divided over whether 'Furku.Al' rock inscription is genuinely the work of Vikings

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When a resident on the Isle of Eigg decided to clean his drains, he had no idea that he would stumble upon a mystery that would baffle ar...
Thursday, 12 January 2017

Bringing Vikings Back to the East Midlands

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The Centre for the Study of the Viking Age is pleased to report that we have been awarded a substantial grant from the  Arts and Humanitie...
Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Dressed up with bling stolen in Viking raids

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When a female Norwegian Viking died some time during the 9th century, she was buried wearing a status symbol: a beautiful piece of bronz...
Sunday, 11 December 2016

Viking gold discovered in Denmark – on live TV

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The new find was made in the same field that yielded these seven bracelets over the summer. Photo: Nick Schaadt, Museet på Sønderskov ...

Rare 1,500 Year Old Odin Amulet Found In Denmark

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A local treasure hunter named Carsten Helm, along with his 10 and 12-year-old sons, discovered a trove of gold on the island of Lolland tha...
Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Somerset skeletons are oldest evidence of monks found in UK

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Carbon dating of remains unearthed in Beckery chapel near Glastonbury indicate monastic life dating back to fifth or early sixth centuries ...
Monday, 28 November 2016

Altar of Miracle-Making Viking King Discovered in Norway

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Archaeologists uncovered the foundations of a wooden church where the body of the Viking king Olaf Haraldsson may have been enshrined aft...
Wednesday, 23 November 2016

York to reopen Vikings of Jorvik attraction 16 months after floods

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The December 2015 floods that forced the Vikings of Jorvik attraction to close.  Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA I t’s almost a year sinc...
Friday, 11 November 2016

Why did Greenland’s Vikings disappear?

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In 1721, missionary Hans Egede sailed a ship called The Hope from Norway to Greenland, seeking Norse farmers whom Europeans hadn't ...
Wednesday, 9 November 2016

Archaeologists discover a Viking toolbox

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ScienceNordic journalist Charlotte Price Persson, became an archaeologist for the day as she helped excavate a 1,000 year-old Viking t...
Monday, 7 November 2016

Danish archaeologist discovers new Viking fighting style

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Shields were apparently used for much more than just protection The famous round Viking shield may have been more useful than previous...

Archaeologists Discover Viking Toolbox

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The toolbox before Nanna Holm began to dig [Credit: Stine Jacobsen, Videnskab.dk] The lump of soil was removed from the area around on...

Viking raiders were only trying to win their future wives' hearts

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Viking raiders were proving their masculinity to try to win women's hearts  CREDIT:AFP/GETTY IMAGES/AFP/GETTY IMAGES When the Viki...
Thursday, 20 October 2016

Missing Viking-era rune stone turns up in Sweden

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A Viking-era rune stone that went missing for almost two centuries has been found after a Swedish archaeologist stumbled on it almost by ...

Viking arrowheads emerge from melting Norwegian glaciers

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High up in the mountains, archaeologists are now discovering human traces dating as far back as the Stone age. The oldest ice in th...
Friday, 16 September 2016

New Viking graves discovered in Denmark

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A new archaeological excavation in Denmark reveals the remains of graves and buildings that span the Stone Age, Bronze Age, the Vikings, a...

Major Archeological Find in Iceland

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From the excavation site in Stöðvarfjörður. Photo: Screenshot from Stöð 2 A recent archeological find in Iceland suggests that the co...
Monday, 12 September 2016

Ancient Viking warrior blade unearthed by Icelandic goose hunters

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© The Cultural Heritage Agency of Iceland Hunters tracking geese in the wilds of southern Iceland have returned with an unexpected ca...

Tenth century Viking sword discovered in Iceland

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A few friends hunting for geese accidentally discovered an impressive Viking sword this weekend which they handed over to the Cultural He...
Sunday, 24 July 2016

Mighty Viking Ax Discovered in Tomb of Medieval 'Power Couple'

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One of the largest Dane axes ever found, recovered by archaeologists from a 10th-century Viking tomb near Silkeborg in central Denmark. ...
Tuesday, 19 July 2016

Vikings abused and beheaded their slaves

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This double grave from the Viking era at Grimsta in south-eastern Sweden was exhumed in 1974. It contained skeletons of two persons who h...
Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Danish Viking grave reveals archaeological mysteries

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New excavations in Scandinavia’s first city, Ribe, suggests rapid change at the end of the 9th century. An excavation of burial grou...
Monday, 4 July 2016

Danes to build new Viking museum in Oslo

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The Danish architecture firm AART has been chosen to build the new Viking Age Museum in Oslo. The firm’s circular design ‘Naust’ was...
Friday, 1 July 2016

Danish cops now on a 1,000-year-old case

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Archaeologists involve the police after surmising that a fire at a 1,000-year-old castle was deliberately set Archaeologists have foun...

1,400-Year Old Sledge Thawed Out of Norwegian Glacier

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In the most recent issue of the Journal of Glacial Archaeology   (JGA) , a team  of Norwegian scientists from the Hordaland County Counc...
Monday, 27 June 2016

THE DAY OF ARCHAEOLOGY 2016 WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY 29 JULY!

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We are looking for people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate with us in a “Day of Archaeology” ...

Unique Viking tomb contains remains of noble couple

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A Viking tomb in Denmark contains the rare remains of two men and a woman and offers more evidence of an international Viking culture. ...
Tuesday, 21 June 2016

After 1,000 years, ‘forgotten’ Danish Viking fortress opens

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The 'forgotten' Viking fortress is one of five in Denmark. Photo: Mathias Løvgreen Bojesen/Scanpix The historic discovery two y...

Largest-ever Viking gold collection found in Denmark

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Six gold bracelets and a silver one represent the largest-ever Viking treasure trove uncovered in Denmark. Photo: Nick Schaadt, Museet ...
Monday, 20 June 2016

Viking Gold Hoard Discovered In Denmark

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Denmark's main museum says amateur archaeologists have found seven bracelets - one of silver and six of gold - which are considered to ...
Thursday, 16 June 2016

Viking Gold Hoard at the End of the Rainbow

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It really feels as if we found  gold at the end of the rainbow, tells one of the amateur archaeologists, who last week found the largest...
Monday, 13 June 2016

Body in well confirms Viking Saga

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Archeologists from NIKUnorway working in the well.  Image: The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research A rchaeologists wor...
Wednesday, 1 June 2016

Stop Destruction Of British Archaeology

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Sunday, 29 May 2016

New Lead in the Search for Elusive Norse Settlements

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Wayne MacIsaac stands near what he believes may be the remnants of a Norse fortification wall. (Tara MacIsaac/Epoch Times) CODROY VALL...