The site features three large ship-shaped stone ... team found evidence of Viking burial customs, including cremation pyres where the dead were burned. "After burning the dead, unburned animals ...

While digging to find an ancient settlement in southern Sweden, archaeologists made a completely unexpected discovery: an enormous Viking Age cemetery with more than 100 graves and several ship ...

Researchers at Vrak – Museum of Wrecks, in Stockholm, hope to get funds to excavate a 15th-century shipwreck from the waters ...

Indeed, the Viking Age ... in the waterlogged clay of royal burial mounds. Built around A.D. 890, three quarters of a century after the Oseberg ship, the Gokstad vessel shows great improvements ...

From the remains of five Viking ships in Denmark to the excavation of ... of York University. A cluster of burial mounds was excavated in the 1950s - some of which appeared to have been the ...

they concluded that the settlement was not Viking, as first assumed, but Anglo-Saxon. The significance of Sutton Hoo was instantly recognized. The largest Anglo-Saxon ship burial ever discovered ...