A 27m 886ft long ship with a burial chamber full of dazzling riches.

Viking boat british museum. Ad Luxury Cobalt Boats in Lake Geneva WI. The ship will be displayed alongside Viking artefacts from the British Museums own collection and elsewhere in Britain and Ireland. Presenters Michael Wood and Bettany Hughes are joined by guests including exhibition curator Gareth Williams Neil MacGregor and experts on Viking ships and swords burial and beliefs as well as their language and legacy.

Longest known Viking ship goes on display at British Museum. Sue Brunnings talks this time at the British Museum. At this session the British Museum.

Ad Hotels near British Museum London Book online now pay at the hotel. This came straight on the heels of her recent presentation about the renovations and refurbishment of Room 41 at the British Museum which houses the majestic Sutton Hoo collection. The ship which came to Britain in a flat pack is the longest ever found.

Amateur archaeologist Basil Brown famously made the discovery of a lifetime back in 1939 when he brushed away the Suffolk soil and revealed the richest intact early medieval grave in Europe. The ship was excavated in 1997 when the works to renovate the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum were going on. A Viking Figure-Head from the Scheldt National Art-Collections Fund 35th Annual Report 1938 London p.

XXVI ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS 19th February 1938. The Vikings were mainly farmers fishers hunters and skilled craft workers. This article was amended on 21 January 2014.

An earlier version said the Viking warship was 37 metres longer. Life and legend was supported by BP. The exhibition explored how the Vikings influenced our modern world through their relationship to with water and ship-making the development of language and their expansion from Scandinavia to connecting four continents across the globe.