By Laura Geggel One vessel in the hoard had Zoroastrian religious symbols. More than 1,000 years ago, someone hid an opulent hoard containing more than 100 valuables underground in Scotland. When this buried treasure of silver brooches and bracelets, gold pins and rings, and an intricately decorated metal vessel was discovered in 2014, researchers initially thought that the Vikings had buried it.Continue reading “Christian monks may have buried this treasure to dupe the Vikings”
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How a 17th-century illustration is helping archaeologists find Viking ships
To see more Viking articles, click here. Danish antiquarian Ole Worm conducted the first survey of the Kalvestene in 1650. By JENNIFER OUELLETTE In 1650, a Danish physician and antiquarian named Ole Worm conducted the first survey of a Viking cremation burial site known as the Kalvestene. Worm created a map of the locations of all the “shipContinue reading “How a 17th-century illustration is helping archaeologists find Viking ships”
Two Viking burials, separated by an ocean, contain close kin
To see more Viking articles, click here. Two Viking Age warriors from the same family died hundreds of kilometers apart. By KIONA N. SMITH Roughly a thousand years ago, a young man in his early 20s met a violent end in England. Eight hundred kilometers (500 miles) away, in Denmark, an older man who hadContinue reading “Two Viking burials, separated by an ocean, contain close kin”
A Viking era ring inscribed with the words ‘for Allah’, found in the grave of a woman who was buried 1200 years ago in Birka
To see more Viking articles, click here. Analysis and Interpretation of a Unique Arabic Finger Ring from the Viking Age Town of Birka, Sweden, 25 km west of modern-day Stockholm. The ring constitutes unique material evidence of direct contact between the Vikings and the Abbasid CaliphateThe ring is made of silver alloy set with aContinue reading “A Viking era ring inscribed with the words ‘for Allah’, found in the grave of a woman who was buried 1200 years ago in Birka”
Solving one of Viking Age Britain’s greatest mysteries
To see more Viking articles, click here. David Keys considers a discovery that sheds fresh light on gold, silver, sacred relics and fear in the medieval era. Archaeologists have determined that a treasure cache, discovered by metal detectorists in Scotland seven years ago, is the richest and most complex Viking era hoard ever found in Britain. The findingContinue reading “Solving one of Viking Age Britain’s greatest mysteries”