What looked like a tangle of “old wires” in a Norwegian farm field turned out to be a cache of Viking silver that had been hidden in the soil for roughly 1,100 years. The misidentified scrap, once ...
Researchers in Sweden have found Arabic characters woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves. The discovery raises new questions about the influence of Islam in Scandinavia, writes journalist ...
One of the excavated fragments made from fine silk and silver thread discovered at the two Swedish sites, Birka and Gamla Uppsala Researchers in Sweden have found Arabic characters woven into burial ...