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Homeowner Finds Massive Viking Silver Hoard Beneath New Patio
A homeowner in Denmark thought they were about to spend a few ordinary hours preparing the ground for a new patio. Instead, a strange sound beneath the soil led to a discovery containing roughly 18.5 kilograms of Viking Age silver, making it the largest known hoard of its kind ever found in Denmark. The anonymous…
Scientists Just Put a Date on the Vikings’ Arrival in America, And It’s Centuries Earlier Than Columbus
For decades, archaeologists knew that Vikings had reached North America long before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, but they could not put a precise year on the event. That changed when researchers returned to four unimpressive pieces of wood recovered from L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. The scraps had been sitting in storage for years,…