Oslo — Three 1,200-year-old Viking ships that have stood the test of time are embarking on their final and possibly riskiest journey to their new forever home in Norway. The first to make the move is ...
Oslo — Three 1,200-year-old Viking ships that have stood the test of time are embarking on their final and possibly riskiest journey to their new forever home in Norway. The first to make the move is ...
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 ...
On a flat stretch of farmland in Halden, southeastern Norway, a crane lowered its straps around a block of earth the size of ...
JARLSBERG, NORWAY—According to a Science Norway report, initial excavations at a site in southeastern Norway where rivets were discovered in 2018 have uncovered a total of 70 ship-sized rivets. “This ...
On the Norwegian island of Leka, archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known ship burial in Scandinavia. By Franz Lidz For hundreds of years, Norwegians thought they knew who or what had been ...
A newly uncovered ship burial on Norway’s coast reveals that elite maritime traditions existed centuries before the Vikings dominated the seas.
The Storhaug burial is from the year 779. The burial mound contained a ship about 20 metres long, two boats, a horse, and a ...
In 1874, the Bergen Museum on Norway’s southwestern coast appointed its first archaeologist and conservator. Though only 28 years old, Anders Lorange was making a name for himself by searching for ...