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4 Years After Discovery, the First Viking Ship Burial Found in Over 100 Years Reveals its Lost Secrets
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4 Years After Discovery, the First Viking Ship Burial Found in Over 100 Years Reveals its Lost Secrets

March 17, 2023July 6, 2023

When news broke in 2018 that another Viking-Age ship burial had been found on the shores of the Oslo…

Raise a Horn of Mead to the Vikings’ Remarkable Voyage to North America Precisely 1,000 Years Ago—New Research Finds
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Raise a Horn of Mead to the Vikings’ Remarkable Voyage to North America Precisely 1,000 Years Ago—New Research Finds

October 20, 2021

PICTURED: The reconstructed archaeological site at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, also known by the mythical name of “Vinland,” home…


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