The first excavation of a Viking ship in 100 years is underway in Norway. In a statement, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) explained that the Museum of Cultural History at ...

The Oseberg and Gokstad Ships will take pride of place in the new Museum of the Viking Age in Oslo, Norway. Ten years ago, experts concluded that the three world-famous Viking ships on display at Oslo ...

OSLO — Two of Norway’s greatest cultural treasures, the preserved Viking longships Oseberg and Gokstad, managed to survive sea voyages more than a thousand years ago, followed by centuries interred in ...

Oslo — Three 1,200-year-old Viking ships that have stood the test of time are embarking on their final and possibly riskiest journey to their new forever home in Norway. The first to make the move is ...

Ground penetrating radar found subterranean ritual structures. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A Viking ship that was laid to ...

A burial site featuring what seems to be a complete viking ship has been discovered in the Vestfold county in Norway. Many spectacular finds have been unearthed in the region over the years, including ...

Norwegian archaeologists are set to carry out a full excavation of a buried Viking ship for the first time in more than 100 years, the country’s government announced Monday. Per a statement, Norway ...

It took 10 years of work to prepare a Viking longship for a trip no longer than a football field. How it got to that spot ...

Worried three of its prize vessels would fall part, Norway's Viking Ship Museum is moving a trio of millennia-old ships to a ...

MOORHEAD — Next July will mark the 40th anniversary of the Hjemkomst Viking Ship arriving in Norway after its more than two-month journey from the Duluth, Minnesota, harbor. The Historical & Cultural ...

For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the “Oseberg,” “Gokstad” and “Tune”—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo ...

The extremely fragile oak hull, encased in a heavy protective steel rig, began making the roughly hundred-yard journey on Tuesday. It was expected to take over 10 hours, with the ship lifted by a ...