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Monumental ship burials had a wider and deeper past than we thought. BY TIM NEWCOMB The Vikings weren’t the first to get into the business of monumental ship burial mounds in Norway. It turns out that burying ships under piles of Earth was happening at least 100 years before the Vikings made it famous—and inContinue reading “Archaeologists Found a Ship Buried in Norway. It’s Older than the Vikings.”

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”

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”

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?”