An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where ...

In the fourth century BCE, mysterious raiders attacked a Danish island. Now we might finally know where they came from.

Every year, girls and women will be putting candles in their hair in order to mark an ancient Christmas tradition that's only ...

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself ...

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of ...

Would a smear of tar be enough to unlocked a new version of maritime history in Southern Europe? Archaeologists think so.

New research suggests indicates that Scandinavia's oldest known example of a wooden plank boat may have sailed to attack the ...

About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the ...

The oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia has yielded an unexpectedly intimate clue about the people who once rode it ...

Researchers examined rope cords and caulking material to determine the age of the fabled Hjortspring plank boat to narrow ...

A fingerprint has been found in the tars used to build the oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia, which provides a direct link to the seaborne raiders who used the boat over 2,000 years ago.