5,000-year-old Stone-Paved Cellar Surprisingly Discovered under a Neolithic Dwelling in Denmark An excavation of a 5,000-year-old Neolithic dwelling on the Danish island of Falster surprisingly revealed a stone-paved cellar. Railroad construction through a farm on the Danish island of Falster has revealed a site hiding advanced technology. The stone-paved root cellar measures roughly 6.5 feet by …

Rare Ancient Stamps Found in Falster May Show Way to an Unknown King’s Home In the center of Falster, southeast of Denmark, a man with a metal detector has made an important discovery. The discovery is so important that it could help write a few chapters for Danish history or at least the local history …

Well-Preserved 3,000-Year-Old Pre-Viking Sword Unearthed in Denmark is Still Sharp On the large island of Zealand, located in eastern Denmark, two amateur archaeologists fortuitously decided to bring their metal detectors along with them on a stroll through a field one evening. While on their walk, the metal detector’s alarm sounded, and the pair from the …

Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark Nearly 300 silver coins believed to be more than 1,000 years old have been discovered near a Viking fortress site in north-west Denmark, a museum has said. The trove – lying in two spots not far apart – was unearthed by a girl who was metal-detecting in …

5,000-year-old ‘bog body’ found in Denmark may be a human sacrifice victim Archaeologists have discovered the ancient skeletal remains of a so-called bog body in Denmark near the remnants of a flint ax and animal bones, clues that suggest this person was ritually sacrificed more than 5,000 years ago.  Little is known so far about …

High-status Danish Vikings wore exotic beaver furs Beaver fur was a symbol of wealth and an important trade item in 10th Century Denmark, according to a study published July 27, 2022, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Luise Ørsted Brandt of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues. Written sources indicate that fur was a …

DNA analysis reunites Viking relatives in Denmark after 1,000 years The 150 bones have been lent to the Danish museum by the Oxfordshire Museum in Britain for three years. Separated for 1,000 years, two Viking warriors from the same family were reunited last week at Denmark’s National Museum, as DNA analysis helps shed light on …

Ancient golden neck ring found in Denmark A one-of-a-kind golden neck ring from the Germanic Iron Age (400-550 A.D.) has been discovered in a field not far from Esbjerg on the Jutland Peninsula in mainland Denmark. The ring weighs in at almost half a kilo (446 grams) and is designed with crescent-like depressions. The decoration …

Bone Analysis Offers a Glimpse of 19th-Century Working Mothers A 19th-century rural Dutch village had unusually low rates of breastfeeding, likely because mothers were busy working, according to a study published April 13, 2022, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andrea L. Waters-Rist of the University of Western Ontario and colleagues. Artificial feeding of …