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A new Viking grave field opened up at Lisbjerg near Aarhus by archaeologists from Moesgaard museum. High quality finds include a remarkable chest. It’s thought the site is connected to a nearby high status farm. In 🇩🇰
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Vikingegravplads fundet nord for Aarhus
Arkæologer fra Moesgaard har fundet en gravplads fra vikingetiden ved Lisbjerg nord for Aarhus. I gravene er fundet en række spektakulære genstande, som kan tyde på forbindelser til den danske kongema...
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June 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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#Viking burial site found north of Aarhus

Archaeologists from Moesgaard have found a Viking Age burial site at #Lisbjerg north of #Aarhus. The graves contain a number of spectacular objects that may indicate connections to the #Danish monarchy
in Danish from #ViaRitzau
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Vikingegravplads fundet nord for Aarhus | Moesgaard
Arkæologer fra Moesgaard har fundet en gravplads fra vikingetiden ved Lisbjerg nord for Aarhus. I gravene er fundet en række spektakulære genstande, som kan tyde på forbindelser til den danske kongema...
via.ritzau.dk
June 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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An essential new addition to the #StandingStoneSunday library here.
June 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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#OpenAccess
Gardeła, L., & Borake, T. L. (2025). "The Spur Goad from Herslev: tracing the Legacy of a Western Slavic Rider in Viking Age Denmark."
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On #VikingAge zoomorphic spurs and #Slavic iconography from Poland.
#IronAge #Medieval #Archaeology
June 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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New book out now! 🏺Available to order or read online (for free!): Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia: Papers in Honour of Roger Matthews

www.sidestone.com/books/tracin...
June 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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🏺 Recent research suggests that thousands of earthen ridges and canals in the Shatt al-Arab floodplain outside Basra in Iraq, part of an ancient agricultural system, were constructed with slave labour during the early Islamic period associated with the 'Zanj rebellion'.

#Archaeology
#Iraq
The landscape of the Zanj Rebellion? Dating the remains of a large-scale agricultural system in southern Iraq | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The landscape of the Zanj Rebellion? Dating the remains of a large-scale agricultural system in southern Iraq
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June 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Last week the long in the making Festschrift for Dr Torun Zachrisson was finally presented to her. 84 short but sharp papers in her extremely wide sphere of interest.

My contribution cover stylistic influences in jewellery between Anglo-Saxon England and Gotland in the Viking Period.
June 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Stunning Viking treasure discovered on the Isle of Man
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May 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I believe you can look at this even if you’re not on Facebook- discovery of a Viking age boat grave at Senja in the far north of Norway
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May 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Just landed on my desk! Fairly excited for this one!
May 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Researchers have recently concluded that clay artefacts unearthed in the city of Hama in Syria are not musical instruments as initially thought, but instead they are baby rattles

#Archaeology
#Childhood
#BronzeAge
New research: Baby toys were mass produced in Early Bronze Age Syria | Nationalmuseet - Museer, forskning og bevaring
Scholars at the National Museum of Denmark in collaboration with Archéorient CNRS in France and the University of Milan in Italy have identified 4500-year-old baby rattles that were produced by…
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May 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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New Viking coin hoard found in the Netherlands.
After the Wieringen hoard of 1996, this is the second found in the province of Noord-Holland. Remarkable, 8 coins are Viking 'homemade' Frankish coins.
#vikings #hoard #coins #counterfeit
nos.nl/r/639739
Stan vindt eeuwenoude muntschat in Schoorl: "In Holland geslagen Vikingmunten"
Stan Hoenderdos uit Alkmaar kon zijn ogen niet geloven toen hij langs de weg buiten Schoorl een stapel munten uit de grond haalde. Ze zaten aan elkaar geklonterd, alleen een kruis was zichtbaar.
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May 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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There’s not much left of the Varangian guard pre 1080’s CE to sweep up when Roland Scheel took it through some deconstruction… (2023)
May 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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New Special Volume of the journal Viking available open access - Telling Different Stories. Combining perspectives on the Viking Age: journals.uio.no/vikingspecia...
Viking Special Volumes
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May 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Spending the afternoon with @grimfrost.bsky.social, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson and some handcraft 🪡

#vikings #history

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Explore the Viking Age #4: Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson
YouTube video by Grimfrost
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January 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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For anyone who is interested, the open-access version of this is now available: www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
Small Change in the Early Middle Ages | Studies in the Early Middle Ages
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May 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson et al (2024) on ”bling” in Viking-period fashion.

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February 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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After some delay, my first copies have arrived as board member of Brill's Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World. They are wonderful tomes, and there is much more in the making. Very happy to be part of this series. If anyone here would like to work with us, give a shout!
February 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Now that the last one has been deciphered, here's our explainer on all the runic inscriptions from the Galloway Hoard. Huge thanks to Dr David Parsons for lending us his expertise www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...
A runic revelation: Who owned the Galloway hoard? | National Museums Scotland
With any hoard, some of the most common questions are about who buried it, and why. Usually, Viking-age hoards of silver are a mix of anonymous ornaments,
www.nms.ac.uk
February 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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A new book on the hidden histories of the Viking age has just arrived in the post
January 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Lots of really good items on #Norse, #Icelandic, #Viking, #medieval and related topics available in the Viking Society Book Auction - email bids by 31 March vsnr.org/2025/01/20/v.... Do share.
Viking Society Book Auction - Viking Society for Northern Research
The latest auction is now live - and it's quite extensive. These sales are held from time to time to make available to members - and non-members - books related to the Old Norse field, and other mainl...
vsnr.org
January 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Viking Economic Networks and Economic Sites - A (very slightly) provocative and informal perspective on what we understand as Viking economic networks and economic sites.

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Viking Economic Networks and Economic Sites
Dirham, Cuerdale Hoard 1838,0710.1436 Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) This is a (very slightly) provocative and informal perspective on what we understand as Viking…
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January 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Join us next week for a #lecture by Dr. Fedir Androshchuk (Kyiv/Uppsala) about "Princely Power and the Rus Coinage"!

22 Januar, 6.15 pm
@leizarchaeology.bsky.social

👉 More info: www.leiza.de/kalender/det...

#archaeology #Byzantium #LeibnizWissenschaftsCampus #Mainz
January 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM