The Oseberg Viking Ship is unrecognisable. The ship is wrapped in steel beams and covered with a dust cover. The same goes ...

The Friends of the Viking Ship bought a property in downtown Geneva so the organization could build a museum to house the ...

which was typical in graves from the Viking Age. The site was disturbed several times, which increased the ship's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...