“All appear to have been relatively young men flung into the pit without care,” the University of Cambridge said of the human ...

Dated to the ninth century C.E., a time when the Vikings ruled the area, the grave held the remains of at least 10 different young men.

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A routine construction project in Poland may have revealed Jomsborg, the legendary Viking city lost to history. Was the ...

Students at a prestigious university in the United Kingdom recently unearthed a likely execution pit on the outskirts of town — dating back 1,200 years. The University of Cambridge announced the ...

However, he noted that the Vikings could have sailed down the coast of Maine from Newfoundland in the 11th century. Svein Gullbekk, a professor in the Museum of Cultural History at the University of ...

Residents of a prolific and highly-trafficked U.K. university town were shocked when archaeologists unearthed a Viking-era “execution pit” in the center of town. The University of Cambridge announced ...

Icelandic saga literature indicates ivar was buried 'in england, in a mound on a boundary' ...

Residents of a popular U.K. university town were shocked when archaeologists unearthed a Viking-era “execution pit” with intact skeletons.

The burial pit was found at Wandlebury Country Park, just outside Cambridge, England during a student training excavation led by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU). The grave contained the ...