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Forget the longships: this is the overlooked story of how the Vikings dominated eastern Europe

How did the Norse adventurers of the Viking Age impose themselves upon eastern Europe? Not with longships and raids, says one historian, but through canny adaptation Their prowess as seafarers let them strike their targets at speed and then slip away just as swiftly, in repeated cycles of relentless raids from the fertile shores ofContinue reading “Forget the longships: this is the overlooked story of how the Vikings dominated eastern Europe”

Rare Christian cross among spectacular 1,000-year-old Viking treasures found by metal detectorists

By Andrea Margolis Archaeologists recently unearthed a hoard of early medieval treasures on the banks of an inlet in northern Germany, all thanks to a metal detectorist. The State Archaeology Department of Schleswig-Holstein (ALSH) announced the discovery in a press release in late May.  The hoard, dating back roughly 1,000 years, was found on theContinue reading “Rare Christian cross among spectacular 1,000-year-old Viking treasures found by metal detectorists”