Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Viking city: excavation reveals urban pioneers not violent raiders

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Mould carved from soapstone for making ingots and and an axe amulet, both discovered at Ribe. Photograph: Museum of Southwestern Jutlan...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

How Industrial-Scale Tar Production Powered the Viking Age

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“Viking Ships Before a Rocky Coast,” by Michael Zeno Diemer (1911) Image: Wikimedia Vikings acquired the capacity to produce tar at...

The secret of Viking success? A good coat of tar…

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Industrial pits led to waterproofed ships for epic pillaging raids A replica Viking longboat in the Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, ...
Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Norse World goes live!

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And the Norse World resource goes live! Today,  on 7 November  the research infrastructure Norse World is being released with free acce...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

AU CŒUR DE MÂCON, UNE NÉCROPOLE GALLO-ROMAINE

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Cette fouille a permis de mettre au jour les vestiges de la nécropole dite « des Cordiers », datée de la période antique (Ier-VIe siècles...

Pompeii: Vesuvius eruption may have been later than thought

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Pompeii was famously destroyed on 24 August in 79 AD - or was it? GETTY IMAGES Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered an inscription...

Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought

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Our visions of Pompeii's destruction just got a little more gruesome. Giorgio Sommer/Public Domain For nearly two millennia, the ...

Archaeologists uncover rare Celtic remains

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A bronze clothes pin and ceramic object typically found in the 1st century BC. (Kanton Luzern) Archaeologists from canton Lucerne hav...

Do Canadian Carvings Depict Vikings? Removing Mammal Fat May Tell

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Credit: Shutterstock Carvings uncovered in the Canadian Arctic may be the earliest portraits of the Vikings created in the Americas. Bu...

Extraordinary Viking Age Thor’s Hammer Amulet Discovered in Iceland

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Photo: Fornleifastofnun Íslands/The Institute of Archaeology, Iceland A sandstone Thor’s hammer amulet has been found at the Viking-era...

Byzantine Tower In Istanbul Collapses

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Credit: Hurriyet Daily News A Byzantine tower in the centre of modern Istanbul [Constantinople] has collapsed while deep cracks have al...

Archaeological find in Þjórsárdalur: Viking Age farm destroyed by 1104 Hekla eruption

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STÖNG FARM The best known Viking Age farm to be abandoned in the catastrophic  1104 eruption. Photo/Thomas Romst A recent archeologic...

Archaeologists discover Thor's Hammer amulet at previously unexplored site in S. Iceland

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THOR'S HAMMER The small amulet was carved out of sandstone.  Photo/Fornleifastofnun Íslands Most major archeological finds in Ice...

World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in Black Sea

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Archaeologists say the 23-metre vessel has lain undisturbed for more than 2,400 years Archaeologists have found what they believe to be...

A14 road workers find woolly mammoth bones

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The remains are thought to date back to the last Ice Age Road workers building a new bypass have unearthed the Ice Age remains of a woo...

I pulled a 1,500-year-old sword out of a lake

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Saga Vanecek: ‘I had to give the sword to the local museum.’  Photograph: Hilda Grahnat for the Guardian People are saying I am the q...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Georadar detects a Viking ship in Norway

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The outline of the Viking ship can clearly be seen in this animation of the radar data  [Credit: Lars Gustavsen, NIKU] Archaeologists...

Enormous, rare Viking ship burial discovered by radar

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Using ground-penetrating radar mounted on the front of an all-terrain vehicle, archaeologists in Norway peered below farm fields and disc...

Norway makes rare discovery of Viking ship traces

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FOX News Archaeologists said on Monday they have found what they believe are traces of a Viking ship buried in southeast Norway, a rare...

Norway makes rare discovery of Viking ship traces

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This handout picture released on 15 October 2018, by Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) shows an Image generated f...