The Viking age is welcoming a new kind of hero: women
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...
Archaeologists are finding mysterious ancient objects on Norway's melting glaciers. Take a look.
Ancient humans trekked across mountain glaciers for hunting or trade. The objects they left behind were frozen in the ice for ...
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Nazi Symbol Found On A Viking Artifact Is 1,000 Years Older Than World War II
The year 2025 marks 80 years since the end of World War II, which claimed more lives than any other war in human history.
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Norway's Melting Glaciers Are Spilling Out Troves of Lost Artifacts
Norway is at the forefront of this emerging field of research, called glacial archaeology. With about 4,500 artifacts ...
Frozen for centuries, bizarre artifacts emerge from Norway’s melting glaciers!
Norwegian researchers, led by Espen Finstad, have uncovered 4,500 artifacts from melting glaciers, including textiles, tools, ...
Glacial archaeology: Melting ice brings to the surface a new type of research
Norway is at the forefront of the emerging field of research called glacial archaeology, with glaciers melting due to global ...
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Adventures in the genetic time machine
Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?
Did our ancestors leave a puzzle for us? Scientists claim world’s oldest rune stone from Norway is part of a bigger, mysterious message
Archaeologists in Norway have discovered the world's oldest dated rune stone, part of a larger 2,000-year-old slab. The stone ...
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Viking-age hoard found in Scotland a decade ago had indecipherable runes — until now
See it →Metal detectorist unearths ancient gold item — and stuns ... Hoard is considered the “richest collection” of Viking-age artifacts ever found in Britain or Ireland, according ...