A Passerby Went for a Casual Stroll—and Stumbled Upon a 1,000-Year-Old Viking Artifact
Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off the southeast coast of the mainland, surrounded by the Baltic Sea. It was ...
Volcanic hill hid hundreds of ancient artifacts — some 3,400 years old — in Hungary
The hoards, filled with metal objects, beads, fabrics, and animal tusks, span the Late Bronze Age into the Early Iron Age.
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Passerby notices something in wetland — and finds rare Viking item in Sweden. See it
The item turned out to be a rare Viking artifact. The finder, who chose to remain anonymous, visited a wetland on Öland island and stumbled upon a rare Viking armband, the Kalmar County ...
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Submerged ancient settlements and the paints of Pompeii: See the latest discoveries
The ancient Roman aqueduct is visible ... a passerby discovered a rare Viking armband in a wetland. This iron artifact, shaped like a “C” with animal head ends, is one of only three such ...
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A Passerby Went for a Casual Stroll—and Stumbled Upon a 1,000-Year-Old Viking Artifact
Karl-Oskar Erlandsson (an archaeologist from Kalmar) said that from the over 1,000 Viking-era bracelets in the country’s State Historical Museum, only three of the ancient objects are made of iron.