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Why A Violent Multiple Burial In Latvia Could Reveal The Human Cost Of Viking Expansion East
A grave containing six people at the Čunkāni-Dreņģeri cemetery in southern Latvia is giving archaeologists an unusually personal view of violence during the Viking Age. The burial dates to the second half of the ninth century, when Scandinavian military and … Continue reading
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Why Arab Dirhams Found Near Truso Could Map A Viking Trade Route Beyond The Port Itself
Six early medieval Arab silver coins found in a forest near Młynary in northern Poland could change how archaeologists map the Viking-Age trading centre of Truso. The discovery consists of six dirhams and two additional coin fragments, provisionally dated to … Continue reading
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Why Britain’s “Conquest Man” Makes 1066 Look Less Saxon Versus Norman
The Norman Conquest is often reduced to a clean historical picture: Anglo-Saxons on one side, Normans on the other, with the Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066 dividing England into a before and after. A man buried at Barton-upon-Humber … Continue reading
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Why A New Viking Study Says Old Objects Built Community, Not Just Elite Power
Viking-Age archaeology has often treated ancient objects, monumental graves and reused artifacts as evidence of elite power. A new 2026 study by University of Oslo archaeologist Julie Lund argues that this explanation is too narrow. In her book Time and … Continue reading
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Why Fyrkat’s 16 Longhouses Still Matter To Harald Bluetooth’s Royal Experiment
The circular rampart at Fyrkat usually dominates photographs of Harald Bluetooth’s fortress near Hobro. Yet the 16 longhouses that once filled the enclosure may tell an even more revealing story about what the Danish king tried to accomplish around AD … Continue reading
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