5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (537+ words) Thousands of silver coins buried in two birch bark containers have emerged from the ground near Sysmä in southern Finland, forming what archaeologists describe as the largest known Late Iron Age coin hoard ever found in the country. Metal detector…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1114+ words) A routine gardening project in northern Denmark has uncovered the largest known Viking Age silver hoard ever found in the country: 18.5 kilograms of silver comprising around 700 objects and fragments. The discovery was made in a private garden near Rebild, where…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1180+ words) A rare Viking Age burial in western Denmark is preserving something archaeologists almost never get to see: traces of the clothes worn by a young person some 1,300 years ago, still caught between the metal ornaments that once held them in…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (842+ words) Archaeologists have reopened a Viking Age ship burial on Norway’s western coast and uncovered evidence of a much older grave beneath it. The discovery suggests that people used the site for burials centuries before Vikings placed a ship inside the…...