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Gustav Bruunsgaard, a 22-year-old archaeology student from Denmark’s Aarhus University, was walking through the nearby village of Elsted with a metal detector when he stumbled upon a silver bracelet ...

Gustav Bruunsgaard, a 22-year-old archaeology student at Aarhus University, was walking in a field in Denmark this spring when his metal detector started beeping. Using a small shovel to dig up the ...

An archaeology student unearthed seven “spectacular” Viking-era curled silver arm rings earlier this year north of Denmark’s second-largest city, a Danish museum said on Monday, adding the finding has ...

“All appear to have been relatively young men flung into the pit without care,” the University of Cambridge said of the human ...

Once the capital of a Norse kingdom, this walled northern city is now home to an immersive Viking history museum, archaeological sites and street names that still echo its Scandinavian roots. Few ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a hoard of Viking treasure that was hidden for more than a 1,000 years. The treasure was found on a mountainside in Årdal, Hjelmeland municipality, in Norway, the ...

An archaeologist was shocked when he discovered a message in a bottle from over 150 years ago when digging at an old Viking graveyard. Norwegian historian Jacob Bredesen captured the moment the bottle ...

The newly uncovered Viking-age grave in coastal Norway has stunned archaeologists, not because of its weapons or treasure, but because of a quiet, unsettling detail at the dead woman’s face. A pair of ...

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