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It’s a Viking Shipwreck! Maybe It’s Not! Swedish Experts Are On the Case
Researchers at Vrak – Museum of Wrecks, in Stockholm, hope to get funds to excavate a 15th-century shipwreck from the waters ...
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Scientists realize 'Viking' shipwreck is something else entirely
They were commonly thought to have been from ships dating to the Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066). But last year, maritime archaeologists at Vrak, the museum of wrecks in Stockholm, revealed that four of ...
Passerby notices something in wetland — and finds rare Viking item in Sweden. See it
An attentive passerby noticed something in a wetland in Sweden and picked up a rusty brown loop. The item turned out to be a rare Viking artifact. The finder, who chose to remain anonymous, visited a ...
Scientists have been wrong for 200 years: Viking ships at the bottom of the sea turned out to be something else entirely
Archaeologists from the Stockholm Shipwreck Museum hope to secure funding for further research and excavation of the ...
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Explore a Viking Village
Want to "walk" through a real Viking village ... shot of a 1:30 scale model of Birka now housed in the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. See the various clips to learn more about ...
The Viking age is welcoming a new kind of hero: women
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.