The site features three large ship-shaped stone ... team found evidence of Viking burial customs, including cremation pyres where the dead were burned. "After burning the dead, unburned animals ...

Sleek wooden vessels like the Gokstad ship were key to the success of Viking traders and raiders. Unearthed in 1880 from a burial, the ninth-century ship was powered by sail and 32 oarsmen.

Indeed, the Viking Age ... in the waterlogged clay of royal burial mounds. Built around A.D. 890, three quarters of a century after the Oseberg ship, the Gokstad vessel shows great improvements ...

they concluded that the settlement was not Viking, as first assumed, but Anglo-Saxon. The significance of Sutton Hoo was instantly recognized. The largest Anglo-Saxon ship burial ever discovered ...

From the remains of five Viking ships in Denmark to the excavation of ... of York University. A cluster of burial mounds was excavated in the 1950s - some of which appeared to have been the ...

While reexcavating a Viking burial mound in southwestern Norway ... Lorange uncovered the burned remains of a Viking ship containing metal shield bosses and a massive cauldron.

But don’t expect archeologists to find their bones—or any other human remains—in the estimated 17 other nearby burial locations ... Along with her ship, the Viking was also buried with ...