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Some artifacts from the latest find will go on display at the Gamla Uppsala Museum and at the ... unearthed the church where Viking King Olaf Haraldsson was first enshrined as a saint.
Archaeologists have uncovered two rare Viking boat graves in the Swedish village of Gamla Uppsala. One of the boats is intact, still holding the remains of a man, a horse and a dog. Experts from ...
Image The skeleton of a Viking-age man found buried in a boat in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, on the outskirts of the city of Uppsala.Credit...National Historical Museums of Sweden “Uncremated boat ...
To understand Uppsala's history, you need to start at the Viking sites of Valsgarde and Gamla Uppsala ... but a beautiful medieval church stands in its place. Again, it was the shrinking of ...
Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than 50 years. Archaeologists taking part in a routine dig in Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala), 46 ...
in Gamla Uppsala, north of Stockholm, according to the Archaeologists, part of the National Historical Museums in Sweden. Such boat graves were where important members of Viking society were laid ...
A museum display gives a sense of what the Viking woman's boat grave in Gamla Uppsala may have looked like - similar to the tombs the fragments were found in Her team is now working with the ...
Archaeologists have uncovered an ornate sword and other striking finds dating back to before the Viking Age in a burial ... the location in Fyrislund, eastern Uppsala, which is some way away from the ...
Legend, historical accounts, and archaeology are in agreement that Gamla Uppsala, in southeastern Sweden, was the home and burial place of the kings of the fifth- and sixth-century Ynglinga Dynasty.
Archaeologists have uncovered two rare Viking boat graves in the Swedish village of Gamla Uppsala. One of the boats is intact, still holding the remains of a man, a horse and a dog. Experts from ...