Mikael Fauvelle received funding for this research from the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation (Complex Canoes project), and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Maritime Encounters programme). Around ...

About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the coast of southern Jutland in modern-day Denmark. The armada carried around ...

The oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia has yielded an unexpectedly intimate clue about the people who once rode it ...

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Boat strikes: A new detail about the survivors of a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean further complicates the military’s explanations for launching the follow-up attack that killed them.

The discovery of a remarkably preserved wreck off Alexandria has given archaeologists a rare, almost cinematic glimpse of elite leisure on the Nile at the twilight of pharaonic rule. The ...

Comparison of Hjortspring boat (Above, 3D model by Richard Potter) with securely dated Bronze Age art (Rørby sword and Sagaholm rock art) as well as an example of early Iron Age art from Brastad.

Photo of caulking fragment showing fingerprint on the left and high-resolution x-ray tomography scan of fingerprint region on the right. Photography by Erik Johansson, 3D model by Sahel Ganji. New ...

Researchers examined rope cords and caulking material to determine the age of the fabled Hjortspring plank boat to narrow down its origins.

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of its history. On board the plank-built vessel was a hoard of weapons — swords, ...

New research suggests indicates that Scandinavia's oldest known example of a wooden plank boat may have sailed to attack the ...