By Ben Cost Workers were taken aback after discovering a 1,300-year-old fragment from a Viking ship during a drainage excavation project in the Netherlands. The employees had been replacing a sewer system in Wijk bij Duurstede when they discovered a wooden beam protruding from the pavement, Jam Press reported. While it initially appeared to beContinue reading “Sewer shock: 1,300-year-old Viking ship fragment discovered during suburban excavation”
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Metal detectorist finds Viking Age gold coin that might upend history
The ninth-century coin pendant depicts a Christian saint in a pagan world. BY SARAH DURN Less than a 30 minute drive from the University of Cambridge, a metal detectorist followed beeps to a remarkable treasure: a ninth century gold coin pendant. Now finding long-lost coins in the English countryside isn’t exactly unheard of. In 2025,Continue reading “Metal detectorist finds Viking Age gold coin that might upend history”
Did the Vikings reach Maine?
An 11th-century Norse coin found in Maine raises the question of whether the Vikings landed there. By Owen Jarus In 1957, an amateur archaeologist working at a Native American site in Maine discovered a perplexing treasure: a 900-year-old silver Norse coin that dated to the late Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066). The artifact, sometimesContinue reading “Did the Vikings reach Maine?”
This ‘gruesome’ execution pit is raising unsettling questions about the Vikings
The disturbing burial site contained decapitated corpses and body parts stacked on top of each other. Yet what happened there remains a mystery BY TOM HOWARTH Archaeologists excavating a training dig near Cambridge have uncovered a grisly burial pit that may offer rare insight into violence and punishment during the turbulent Viking Age in England.Continue reading “This ‘gruesome’ execution pit is raising unsettling questions about the Vikings”
Archaeologists Found Proof of a Viking City That Was Supposed to Be Mythical
Does this evidence actually point to a long-lost “medieval New York”? BY TIM NEWCOMB This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. The history of Viking life has been largely buried, whether physically or figuratively. But in 2023, a simple construction project to erect a new observation tower in a public park on the Polish islandContinue reading “Archaeologists Found Proof of a Viking City That Was Supposed to Be Mythical”