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ALTAR OF VIKING SAINT-KING DISCOVERED IN. Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than 50 years. Illustration Manuel Gabler NIKU.

What can we learn from the discovery at Sutton Hoo. The overgrown boat tomb appeared in the georadar scans just to the right of the old church. The wreck of a 12th-century Viking-style ship discovered in a German port.

In 2019 archaeologists announced the discovery of a Viking ship grave on Edøy Island Norway that made national headlines. Though boat burials date back to the Iron Age and were common in the Viking period only around 10 have been discovered in Sweden mainly in the. While excavating in Valsgärde archaeologists made a surprising but equally gruesome discovery.

Several hundred boat burials have been found over a wide area of northern Europe. Archaeologists taking part in a routine dig in Gamla Uppsala Old Uppsala 46. News of the Edøya ship discovery made headlines around the world last autumn.

Following a full survey of Edøy island archaeologists have announced the discovery of a second Viking boat grave. It is believed that the Viking ship burial tradition originated in what is now modern Sweden in the first century AD. Ad Luxury Cobalt Boats in Lake Geneva WI.