Archaeologists from the Stockholm Shipwreck Museum hope to secure funding for further research and excavation of the ...

Researchers at Vrak – Museum of Wrecks, in Stockholm, hope to get funds to excavate a 15th-century shipwreck from the waters ...

Without this crucial advance in ship technology, the Vikings would never have become a dominant force in medieval warfare, politics, and trade. The drekar, or dragon-headed longships, were ...

How and why did medieval farmers in Scandinavia become ... Photograph by ROBERT CLARK-PHOTOGRAPHED AT VIKING SHIP MUSEUM, MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Around 750 a band of ...

By contrast, traditional Nordic ships, such as Viking longships, were built in the "clinker" style ... "This ship represents ...

The ship's carvel-built design marks a turning point in shipbuilding history, using a construction method that differs from ...

Theories about the wreckage had swirled for years, with some believing it to be a sunken Viking ship ... by Jim Hansson / VRAK / SMTM But the medieval ship’s most unique feature wasn’t ...

With global ships and traders though ... which were essential items during Medieval Europe, Sindbæk explains. Those trade networks likely connected Viking peoples in modern countries such as Norway ...

A photo shows a section of the 500-year-old wreck where the horizontal planks clearly look side by side. Some sections of planking are worn away but enough remain for archaeologists to consider the ...