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More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway.
Tree-ring dating of timbers from the grave placed the Oseberg ... measured 6.3 by 9 inches (16 by 23 centimeters). Made of wool, silk and flax, it includes depictions of humans, animals and ...
The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century ...
Every year, the world's oldest wooden church attracts about 12,000 people from all over the globe, who learn about its ...
A piece of decoratively carved wood experts believe is the oldest ever found in Britain has gone on display. The 6,000-year-old piece of oak, found in Boxford, Berkshire, was only the second wood ...
A Roman water pipe made of fragments of hollow tree trunks has been unearthed in Belgium. Found near what may be a water ...
Lost and found but now home at the New York State Museum, researchers and archaeologists are preparing a once-in-a-lifetime exhibit focused on an 18th-century ...
Visitors at the New York State Museum are encouraged to ask questions of staff as they reassemble the historic vessel.
Approaching the age his dad was when he died at Daytona, a second-generation legend went looking for answers. I went looking, ...
Back when Washington State wanted to heavily manage its cougar numbers, my buddy and our dogs took up the chase.
Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are 18th-Century Danish slave ships that have been missing for centuries.