This was also the type of ship used for Viking ship burials for wealthy and important ... the Vikings used written diagrams or plans. The art was probably passed down personally from master ...

which was typical in graves from the Viking Age. The site was disturbed several times, which increased the ship's disintegration and reduced the findings of relics. The burial mound was razed to ...

Today the ship burials at Salme are creating a stir among Viking specialists ... for his personal collection of exotic, foreign art. The Vikings, says archaeologist Steve Ashby with the ...

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 ...