which was typical in graves from the Viking Age. The site was disturbed several times, which increased the ship's ...

The Friends of the Viking Ship bought a property in downtown Geneva so the organization could build a museum to house the ...

While digging to find an ancient settlement in southern Sweden, archaeologists made a completely unexpected discovery: an enormous Viking Age cemetery with more than 100 graves and several ship ...

Sleek wooden vessels like the Gokstad ship were key to the success of Viking traders and raiders. Unearthed in 1880 from a burial, the ninth-century ship was powered by sail and 32 oarsmen.

A cluster of burial mounds was excavated in the 1950s ... were preserved and eventually reconstructed in the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum. To learn more about Viking ship building the museum ...

The ship isn’t lonely down there. Some five wrecks have been discovered in Landfjärden. When discovered, they were thought to be Viking ships, but their exact date and type have been uncertain. “ ...

Proof in the planking The secret of the Viking ship lay in its unique construction ... in the waterlogged clay of royal burial mounds. Built around A.D. 890, three quarters of a century after ...

they concluded that the settlement was not Viking, as first assumed, but Anglo-Saxon. The significance of Sutton Hoo was instantly recognized. The largest Anglo-Saxon ship burial ever discovered ...