To see more Viking articles, click here. Milly Hardwick, a 13-year-old from Suffolk, stumbled onto a cache of 65 artifacts dated to around 1300 B.C.E. By David Kindy Milly Hardwick was searching for buried treasure in a field in Hertfordshire, England, when her metal detector pinged. The 13-year-old’s father, Colin, joked that she’d found anContinue reading “British Teenager Discovers Rare Bronze Age Ax Hoard”
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The Vikings (and their mice) were the first to reach this idyllic Portuguese islands
To see more Viking articles, click here. Evidence shows Norse seafarers settled the Azores centuries before Portuguese explorers. by Mihai Andrei If you were living in the cold and rugged landscapes of medieval Scandinavia, exploring other places probably sounded like a good idea. Especially if it’s a place like the Azores — an archipelago of nineContinue reading “The Vikings (and their mice) were the first to reach this idyllic Portuguese islands”
A Viking axe struck a Newfoundland tree in the year 1021. Here’s how scientists proved it
To see more Viking articles, click here. Hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus, the Norse became the first Europeans to cross the Atlantic and settle in North America. This long-posited theory was finally proven in the 1960s, following an archeological expedition to the site of L’Anse aux Meadows on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland.Continue reading “A Viking axe struck a Newfoundland tree in the year 1021. Here’s how scientists proved it”
A Metal Detectorist Has Found What Is Now Declared the Largest-Ever Hoard of Gold Anglo-Saxon Coins in His Backyard
To see more Viking articles, click here. The Crown is determining whether the trove is legally considered treasure. By Amah-Rose Abrams One man, in one field, has amassed what is now being declared the largest-ever haul of Anglo-Saxon gold coins. The metal detectorist, who wishes to remain anonymous, discovered the 131 coins over the courseContinue reading “A Metal Detectorist Has Found What Is Now Declared the Largest-Ever Hoard of Gold Anglo-Saxon Coins in His Backyard”
Skeletons of Viking men to be reunited in Danish exhibition
To see more Viking articles, click here. By Ian Sample, Science editor DNA tests on ancient bones show men were related and died following violent incidents The skeletons of two Viking age men who were related but died on opposite sides of the North Sea are to be reunited in an exhibition in Copenhagen thisContinue reading “Skeletons of Viking men to be reunited in Danish exhibition”