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DENMARK ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY
A major discovery in Denmark is changing what we thought we knew about VikingsA vast textile production site unearthed in Denmark is challenging the traditional image of Vikings as mere barbarians. Spanning over a mil...
In 1950, peat cutters digging for fuel in Denmark uncovered a remarkably preserved body: It became Tollund Man and transformed the study of bog preservationIn 1950, Denmark's peat cutters made a groundbreaking discovery with the unearthing of Tollund Man, an Iron Age body in exceptional conditi...
In 1991, archaeologists tested a lump of ancient chewing gum from Scandinavia, it unexpectedly preserved the DNA of a person who lived 5,700 years agoArchaeologists are uncovering ancient secrets from chewed birch pitch. These small lumps, found across Scandinavia and northern Europe, are...
Real-life Jurassic Park? Ancient rhino proteins found — dino discoveries may be comingScientists have extracted 24-million-year-old protein sequences from a rhino tooth discovered in the Canadian Arctic, surpassing the age li...
Did our ancestors leave a puzzle for us? Scientists claim world’s oldest rune stone from Norway is part of a bigger, mysterious messageArchaeologists in Norway have discovered the world's oldest dated rune stone, part of a larger 2,000-year-old slab. The stone, deliberately...
9 pendants, 3 rings, and innumerable gold pearls dating AD 500 unearthed in southern NorwayOle Madsen, director at the Archaeological Museum at the University of Stavanger, said that to find "so much gold at the same time is extre...
Archaeologists in Norway unearth the world's oldest runestoneThe runestone was discovered at Tyrifjord, west of Oslo according to reports.