Dozens of iron rivets scattered around a farmer's field in Norway could be part of a Viking ship burial, archaeologists say. In 2015, a metal detectorist discovered three of the rivets while exploring ...

A large, grassy hill in Norway known as the Herlaugshagen burial mound was likely the site of a pre-Viking ship burial, a new analysis finds. Archaeologists have long wondered whether the oversize ...

Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered a mysterious Viking Age burial ground with graves shaped like stone ships. As many as 139 of these graves have been found so far at the site near Varberg, ...

A 1904 photograph shows the excavation of a Viking ship burial in Oseberg, Norway. The 71-foot-long vessel dating to A.D. 834 contained the remains of two women and an abundance of extraordinary grave ...

Burials found at the site were hundreds of years younger than the Stone Age. Arkeologerna and Sweden's National Historical Museums In 2017, the town of Tvååker, Sweden, started a city planning project ...

The Oseberg longship – considered one of the most important historical discoveries of the Viking age — voyaged to its final destination last month. But the journey it took to get there was complicated ...

More than a century after Norway's Gokstad ship burial was first excavated, scientists are examining the remains of the VIking chieftain buried inside and learning the truth about how he lived and ...

A clinker-boat master craftsman and his apprentice work on a vessel destined for Faroese waters at the Viking Museum Roskilde near Copenhagen, Denmark on June 10, 2024. (Lasse Sørensen/Courthouse News ...

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