How we unlocked the secrets of Denmark's oldest plank boat – with the help of an ancient fingerprint ~humanities.history Article 1064 words 7 votes
For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo ~humanities.history Article 16 votes
Viking longship to sail through Tower Bridge – the Saga Farmann departed Tønsberg in Norway and has been sailing around Europe (with a few land transport gaps) ~humanities.history Link 16 votes
The cure for scurvy, forgotten ~humanities.history Article 5313 words, published Jul 13 2010 51 votes
Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago. ~humanities.history Article 32 votes
The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation ~humanities.history Video 10:49 8 votes
In the mid-20th century, Britain and Iceland went to war. Sort of. All over the precious resource of cod. ~humanities.history Video 9:00 5 votes
Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers. ~humanities.history Video 12:03, published Jun 14 2025 4 votes
In 1903, a Norwegian farmer discovered an ornate piece of wood sticking out of the mud – one year later, an almost totally intact Viking ship burial had been uncovered ~humanities.history Video 8:43, published May 31 2025 11 votes
The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be ~humanities.history Article 15 votes
On the Norwegian coast, a tree is transformed into a boat the old-fashioned way at the Hardanger Maritime Centre museum ~humanities.history Article 91 words 8 votes
How the 'Shetland Bus' helped Norway resist Nazi Germany – innocent-looking fishing boats delivered valuable cargo and special agents ~humanities.history Article 718 words 8 votes
Why the island of Bornholm is Danish and not German, Swedish or Polish ~humanities.history Video 13:05 7 votes
Archeologists look at how and when humans first moved into the Pacific ~humanities.history Article 222 words, published Nov 26 2024 6 votes
Archaeologists are investigating the possibility Vikings used shortcuts over land to help them move warships and smaller boats around Scotland's west coast ~humanities.history Article 542 words 12 votes
Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings ~humanities.history Video 20:39, published Sep 24 2024 13 votes
Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne ~humanities.history Article 325 words 12 votes
Ernest Shackleton: Famed explorer's Endurance ship gets extra protection ~humanities.history Article 820 words 8 votes
Explore Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton's famous Antarctic ship with new "Digital Twin" ~humanities.history Article 773 words 7 votes
Explorer Ernest Shackleton's last ship found off Labrador's south coast, says expedition ~humanities.history Article 787 words 20 votes
Blacksmiths are reconstructing a Viking ship to better understand the secrets of the navigation of Scandinavian warriors a thousand years ago ~humanities.history Article 552 words 16 votes
Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin Bay expedition ~humanities.history Article 3082 words, published May 17 2024 6 votes
Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh ~humanities.history Video 41:51, published Feb 29 2024 10 votes
Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives ~humanities.history Article 482 words 9 votes