The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with ...

Dozens of iron rivets scattered around a farmer's field in Norway could be part of a Viking ship burial, archaeologists say. In 2015, a metal detectorist discovered three of the rivets while exploring ...

Researchers unearthed the remains of a pre-Viking age ship at a Norwegian burial mound. The ship burial likely dates back 1,300 years to 700 AD, media outlets reported. The discovery suggests maritime ...

A large, grassy hill in Norway known as the Herlaugshagen burial mound was likely the site of a pre-Viking ship burial, a new analysis finds. Archaeologists have long wondered whether the oversize ...

This summer, archaeologists and a metal detectorist conducted a small survey of Herlaugshagen, at Leka in the northern part of Trøndelag County. They found something amazing. The goal was to date a ...

Archaeologists excavated the Myklebust ship mound and found a 140-year-old message in a bottle left by the site’s discoverer, photos show. Photo from the University of Bergen When researchers began ...

A 1904 photograph shows the excavation of a Viking ship burial in Oseberg, Norway. The 71-foot-long vessel dating to A.D. 834 contained the remains of two women and an abundance of extraordinary grave ...

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More than a century after Norway's Gokstad ship burial was first excavated, scientists are examining the remains of the VIking chieftain buried inside and learning the truth about how he lived and ...

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