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A 122-foot Viking ship has been recreated as a steel skeleton with parts from the original, 1,000-year-old hull that was found at the bottom of the Roskilde fjord in Denmark. It now sits within the ...
The ship is buried at a well-known Viking archaeological site at Gjellestad, near Halden, a town in southeastern Norway. But scientists discovered the vessel only recently, in the fall of 2018, by ...
The buried Viking ship, as revealed by ground-penetrating radar in 2018. Image: (NIKU) For the first time in a century, archaeologists will excavate a buried Viking ship. Located a less than 2 ...
After sitting in Lincoln Park for 74 years enduring dry rot and toxic pigeon poop, a Viking ship that is one of the park’s most enduring if overlooked monuments will be gone within a few days.
A ground-penetrating radar survey in 2018 found a 20-meter Viking ship buried just beneath the surface of a farmer’s field in Østfold, Norway. At the time, archaeologists decided that the rare ...
A replica Viking ship made of 15 million ice-cream sticks is to be launched in Amsterdam on Tuesday by a former Hollywood stuntman who hopes eventually to sail it across the Atlantic.
The 76-year-old San Marcos resident has spent much of the past 2-1/2 years building a 33-foot replica Viking ship. Now in the final stages of construction in a Vista backyard, Kottmeier’s wooden ...
Part of a replica Viking ship with a story tied to the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 will be the focus of a new exhibit at the Geneva History Museum set to open Feb. 4. The exhibit at the muse… ...