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 Paul Fadum from Tønsberg is constantly looking for little treasures with his metal detector. Together with his father-in-law, he hunts for traces of the past and has found both coins and keys, but last week he made his most special find to date – a small lead disc with a runic inscription from the Middle [...] In the Viking Age people were buried in many different sort of places. Did the ancient Scandinavians chose a particular place for burial or were the burial sites randomly selected? Had the choice anything to do with ideas of the afterlife? The seasons first Tuesday Talk at The Museum of Archaeology has an exciting topic! [...]  When archaeologist Ruth Iren Øien noticed a cluster of tiny iron beads in the ground, she knew she was onto something. She did not know, however, that her team had stumbled upon Scandinavia’s oldest and most complex group of iron forges. And not only that, it would be months before Øien, with the Norwegian [...]  Norwegian archaeologists have discovered a well preserved Kaupang (Viking trading post) in Lærdal, Sogn og Fjordane county on the west coast of Norway. Archaeologist Asle Bruen Olsen, who has been in charge of the excavation, says to NRK TV that the find is more important, older, and larger than those earlier found in other [...] |
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