A Solar Blast From 1,000 Years Ago Could Hold the Solution to a Major Viking Mystery
The Vikings beat Columbus to North America by centuries, but identifying the exact year is proving much harder. A surge of carbon-14 could help. BY TIM NEWCOMB Cosmic rays may hold the answer to a question that has stumped archaeologists for decades: exactly when did the Vikings first set foot in North America? The evidence…
A Finnish Metal Detectorist Was Shocked to Unearth a Trove of Viking Age Silver in His Hometown. Then His Detector Went Off Again
Weighing a combined ten pounds, the artifacts are estimated to be 1,000 years old and constitute Finland’s largest coin hoard of the era. By SONJA ANDERSON A metal detectorist in southern Finland has unearthed the country’s largest hoard of Late Iron Age silver coins to date. Buried in the 11th century in what’s now the…
Students uncover ‘lost Viking church’ on Scottish island inhabited by cows
By Lizzie McAllister A group of school pupils have discovered the remains of what appears to be a 1,000-year-old Viking church on a remote Scottish island. Students at Gordonstoun School – once attended by King Charles – made the find during a trip to Swona, a tiny island in Orkney inhabited only by feral cattle.…
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