While digging to find an ancient settlement in southern Sweden, archaeologists made a completely unexpected discovery: an enormous Viking Age cemetery ... in historical sagas, the aboveground ...

Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered a mysterious Viking Age burial ground with graves shaped like stone ships. As many as 139 of these graves have been found so far at the site near Varberg ...

An excavation of three Viking graves in Norway reveals beads, coin jewelry and a stone carved to look like ... may have wielded weapons when pregnant, sagas and ancient artifacts hint Braided ...

At least three of them appear to belong to a trio of highly respected and wealthy Viking women ... This is the stone in the boat that archaeologists call a vulva stone. Credit: University Museum ...

It lay in a grave from the Viking Age. The stone was discovered when archaeologist Søren Diinhoff and his colleagues from the University Museum of Bergen excavated three women's graves in the autumn ...

Although Tvååker is mentioned in historical sagas, the aboveground remains of this particular cemetery were lost to time until recently. You may like Archaeologist sailed a Viking replica boat ...