The site was disturbed several times, which increased the ship's disintegration and reduced the findings of relics. The burial mound was razed to create an area for farmland, which destroyed the ...

In 1903, a monumental find was made when a Viking longship was unraveled in a burial mound at Oseberg, near the Oslo Fjord, as reported by Cambridge.Org. This was no ordinary ship—what lay ...

Sneed wanted burial at sea in a full casket and not cremation, which requires either a carrier or large-platform amphibious ship. The Navy acknowledged its backlog of burials at sea three weeks ...

Having initiated the dig on her land in 1938, she took a close interest in the discoveries, and is shown here, seated between two friends, observing the uncovering of the ship burial. Photograph ...

Scenes aboard the USS Carl Vinson, the ship from which the body of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was buried at sea. The U.S. aircraft carrier is spending four days anchored off Hong Kong.