After L’Anse aux Meadows — the first and so far only confirmed Viking settlement in North America — was discovered in 1960, it has been thought other sites might be found. Since then, archaeologists ...
Between 2019 and 2020, excavations were conducted in central Norway ahead of construction work for a road. The excavations revealed a pre-Christian cemetery, which had been partially dug up back in ...
A picture of the iron hoard, which consists of 1,000-year-old rods that are seen grouped together in a bundle. A rare stash of 1,000-year-old ironwork, which sat for 40 years in a family's basement in ...
Editor's Note: This article was originally published at ScienceNordic. The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age… All follow the most widely recognised method of categorising historical cultural ...
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 to ...
It’s yet to be confirmed this new discovery was indeed a Viking settlement but those who have worked the site say that they are close to determining that is indeed what it was. It was discovered last ...
Archaeologist Sarah Parcak, on the hunt for Viking settlements in North America, turned to satellite imagery to identify potential sites. An exhaustive analysis of images taken from space identified ...
Archaeologists have used satellite imagery to identify a site in Newfoundland that could be the first new Viking site discovered in North America in over 50 years. Satellite imagery, magnetometer ...
Vikings – known for their fearsome conquests – first came to North America a thousand years ago, according to historians. Now scientists may be able to shed more light on that history with satellite ...
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