From USA Today, 20 July 2011: Viking women may have equaled men moving to England in medieval invasions, suggests a look at ancient burials. Vikings famously invaded Eastern England around […]
Read more →From The Guardian, 11 July 2011: Teeth with neat parallel grooves have been found in Viking graves in Sweden, Denmark and England, and farther afield. Filed Viking teeth are piling […]
Read more →From the BBC, 5 May 2011: Aerial surveys are being carried out over Skye to help archaeologists investigate a 12th Century Viking shipbuilding site. Boat timbers, a stone-built quay and […]
Read more →From Views and News from Norway, 10 March 2011: The largest archaeological project in Norway in nearly 10 years will begin in June to recover property of the Viking king […]
Read more →Volunteers are aiming to complete and sail a full-scale replica of Norway’s famed Oseberg ship, one of the best-preserved and most celebrated Viking relics in the world, later this year. The […]
Read more →From News & Views from Norway, 2 February 2011: New archaeological findings suggest that the Vikings considered Stone Age objects to have magical qualities, and that such “antiques” were more […]
Read more →From Unreported Heritage News, 23 December 2010: New archaeological discoveries show that Iceland was inhabited around AD 800 – nearly 70 years before the traditional dating of its Viking settlement. […]
Read more →From the BBC, 3 February 2011: Now genealogists from the University of Leicester are using DNA tests to trace Manx ancestry back to the Viking era. Local men with popular […]
Read more →From the New Scientist, 31 Jan 2011: Viking sagas may have been more truthful than we realised. Crystal “sunstones” could have helped Viking sailors to navigate even when cloud or […]
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