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The Viking Ship Museum in Bygdøy, Oslo will be renamed the Museum of the Viking Age. The new logo honors the three Viking ships, Oseberg, Gokstad, and Tune, which have …

The two large longhouses that were discovered at Stöð, near the village of Stöðvarfjörður in the eastern part of Iceland, are pushing the settlement of Iceland back decades. According to …

Many people around the world are using DNA testing to trace back their family tree, often with surprising results. What some people may not know, is that these DNA tests …

The rabbit development in georadar technology has in the last couple of years resulted in an increasing amount of discoveries from the Viking Age. In September 2018, a group of …

On the 16th of December 2020, near the city of Ystad, Sweden, a group of archaeologists found one of the long lost Hunnestad picture stones. This particular picture stone has …

While some of us were spending most of 2020 expanding our waist size, a man named Claus Gundersen was walking around with his metal detector searching for ancient treasures on …

It may come as a shock for some people, but the famous Viking ships at the Viking ship museum in Bygdøy, Oslo, are in critical condition. It had even come …

When the Gjellestad Viking ship was discovered in 2018, many people were excited that another piece of the puzzle from the past would be added to the picture. However, tests …

In Denmark near the city of Slagelse are the remains of the famous Viking fortress Trelleborg. This is a well-known spot for many Viking enthusiasts, and every year thousands of …

While most people were spending their time indoors streaming movies in 2020, a group of archaeologists from the University Museum of Bergen were out in the field digging holes in …