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On a foggy morning off Norway’s craggy coast, a square-rigged clinker boat—a descendant of Viking craft—glided between islands. No compass guided its crew. No engine rumbled below deck ...
Researchers at Vrak – Museum of Wrecks, in Stockholm, hope to get funds to excavate a 15th-century shipwreck from the waters near the city.
One woman died and five other people were rescued after a replica of a Viking ship capsized off Norway's west coast overnight, authorities said Wednesday. Police said a woman was found dead in the ...
Meanwhile in Oslo, the new Museum of the Viking Age currently under construction is an expansion of the existing Viking Ship Museum, home to the best preserved Viking ships in the world.
The positions in the table below reflect the Viking Ship Museum's position overall, domestically, within their sector, and in various subject areas based on their Share. Each position links to the ...
In conjunction with the opening this weekend of an exhibit at the Geneva History Museum featuring the dragon head and tail from a replica Viking ship created in the 19th century, museum officials ...
The Vasa Museum According to the latest archaeological research, four of the ships date from the 17th and 18th centuries, one of them being significantly older.
Flooding on the Mississippi River has brought some good news to Owensboro. Viking Mississippi, a river cruise ship that carries up to 386 passengers, had to reroute its planned trip up the ...
A cofferdam was constructed around them and the ships were excavated and salvaged in 1962. They are now on display in the purpose-built Viking Ship Museum at Roskilde.
At Oslo's Viking Ship museum, a team of engineers has begun work to ensure a new home being built nextdoor does not prove fatal for three vessels that have survived for a millennium or more.