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Rare pre-Viking helmet pieces — fit for a king — discovered in Denmark. Take a look
Historians with the National Museum of Denmark looked at the pieces, and they quickly realized ... and together they made the brow ridge of a pre-Viking era helmet. The helmet was made of bronze ...
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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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What You Don’t Know About the Vikings
Warfare wasn’t the exclusive domain of Viking men. This sword was buried with a female leader. Photograph by GABRIEL HILDEBRAND-SWEDISH HISTORY MUSEUM/CC BY (SWORD, IN TWO PIECES) Taken together ...
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Viking Dig Reports
In 1791 a small piece of what looked like leather ... Bronze and Iron ages. The British Museum - Important collections of Viking material, as well as displays relating to religions and beliefs ...
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A Viking Age skeleton discovery could shed light on ancient DNA
as seen from the grave goods they were buried with," said the Museum Odense press release. This includes a woman who was "buried in a wagon, the upper part of a Viking cart used as a coffin," as ...