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 ...

some surrounded by stones arranged in the shape of boats—a practice known as "stone ship burial" that symbolizes the journey to the afterlife according to Viking beliefs. The site features three ...

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.

Researchers at Vrak – Museum of Wrecks, in Stockholm, hope to get funds to excavate a 15th-century shipwreck from the waters ...

Preserved to the present Famous discoveries of Viking ships at Gokstad and Oseberg ... in the waterlogged clay of royal burial mounds. Built around A.D. 890, three quarters of a century after ...

They were commonly thought to have been from ships dating to the Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066). "It's a large ship, likely about 35 metres [115 feet] long and 10 metres [33 feet] wide," he said.

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

A cluster of burial mounds was excavated in the 1950s ... were preserved and eventually reconstructed in the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum. To learn more about Viking ship building the museum ...

Viking Cruises offered its support to the victim's family and canceled an upcoming departure after its ship was damaged by the rare and mysterious phenomenon known as a rogue wave Kimberlee ...

Burial ships would be covered with mounds of earth or set alight in funeral pyres. An account of a Viking chieftain's burial in 9th century Russia describes animals and even a slave woman being ...