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1,000-Year-Old Viking Object Reveals How They Likely Styled Their Hair

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-12 14:50:05

Hair parted in the middle, cropped at the back, with a wavy lock styled above one ear. That’s not my haircut of choice, but if you were an elite Viking, it may well have been. That’s the upshot of a study published last month in the journal Medieval Archaeology in which researchers re-examined a roughly one-inch-tall (three centimeters) Viking gaming piece that dates back more than 1,000 years. It was originally discovered among the burial things of a presumed Viking warrior in Norway in 1797 a

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Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World

news.ycombinator.com Mark Milligan 2025-11-10 12:34:27

A Viking-Age silver hoard unearthed in Bedale, North Yorkshire, is providing new insights into wealth and trading links between England and the Islamic World. First discovered in 2012 by a metal detectorist in a North Yorkshire field, the hoard (known as the Bedale hoard), consists of a deposit of necklaces, arm-bands, a sword pommel, hacksilver, and 29 silver ingots. - Advertisement - Previous studies have dated the hoard to the late 9th to early 10th centuries AD, predating both the nearby

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Archaeologists Unearth Viking-Era Burial With Incredibly Rare Casket

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-03-07 09:00:22

Archaeologists from Denmark’s Moesgaard Museum have uncovered 30 Viking Age graves dating from 800 to 1050 CE, just under five miles north of Aarhus. Located near the town of Lisbjerg, the burial site has yielded a number of spectacular objects hinting at ties with Danish royalty. “The burial site is most likely connected to the Viking-era manor in Lisbjerg, which is less than a kilometer from the burial site,” Mads Ravn, an archaeologist from Moesgaard and Viking Age expert, explained in the M

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Metal Detectorist Discovers Rare Boat Grave Containing Viking Woman and Her Dog

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-03-14 14:00:45

The saying goes that a dog is a man’s best friend, but an archaeological excavation in Norway proves that women care about their four-legged companions just as much as men do, even 1,100 years ago. Archaeologists from the Arctic University Museum of Norway have revealed a 10th-century Viking boat grave on the Norwegian island of Senja. The buried individual is likely a woman who belonged to an elite class, as Science Norway first reported. Most notably, the team found a dog carefully buried at

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