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These berries were banned in the USA for almost 100 years: "We should all eat more of them" The hardy berry bushes can be found in gardens all over Norway.
Archaeologists' most exciting finds: "Are we watching a Viking town being ploughed away right in front of us?" A tractor ploughing the soil suddenly struck something hard. The sound sent a jolt ...
In a small room in Oslo lie hundreds of pieces of 2,000-year-old papyrus Researchers are working on publishing two new volumes from the papyrus collection in Oslo.
Was there a Viking Age in Norway — 2000 years before the Vikings? It may be that people from the North went to the Mediterranean with "Viking ships" as early as 3000 years ago.
Over 30 mysterious children's graves uncovered in Norway Archaeologists have discovered 40 circular stone formations during an excavation in southeastern Norway. All have cremated bone remains in the ...
Every Viking owned a stone like this - and they traded massive quantities of them too Whetstones are one of the most common finds from the Viking Age. What looks like a simple stone however, tells the ...
New research supports Thor Heyerdahl's theory on South Americans in the Pacific There was contact between Polynesia and America long before the arrival of Europeans, a large new DNA study shows. One ...
When a several-hundred-metre-high tsunami hit Northern Norway Scientists know more and more about the giant meteorite that crashed into the sea between Finnmark and Svalbard millions of years ago. And ...
With sufficient training, robotic systems possess the potential of achieving human capabilities in this task, offering significant benefits to a congested healthcare system. Robotic ultrasound could ...
Archaeologist Marianne Hem Eriksen has been searching for traces of pregnant women in the Viking Age. The fact that she found almost none tells its own story.
New Viking ship discovered in Norway A large boat or perhaps a ship, archaeologists initially said. Now they are certain. There was once a Viking ship buried at Jarlsberg.
Many people have seen the Netflix movie Don't look up. The plot concerns what happens when a comet that is large enough to trigger a mass extinction is headed right for the Earth. It’s extremely rare ...