3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (561+ words) More than four thousand years ago, prehistoric communities in northern England appear to have faced an extraordinary engineering challenge. They selected enormous sandstone blocks weighing around 25 tonnes, moved them roughly 18 kilometres across the landscape and raised them into a monumental…...

5+ day, 9+ 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…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (835+ words) Archaeologists in Czechia are uncovering new details about a 6,500-year-old prehistoric sanctuary whose entrances appear to have been carefully arranged around the movements of the Sun and Moon. The enormous enclosure near the village of Chleby predates the earliest phase…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (611+ words) The Oseberg ship burial is one of the most important Viking Age discoveries in Norway. It dates to the ninth century and was found in a burial mound near the Oslo Fjord. Inside the ship, archaeologists found many valuable objects,…...

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…...