Over 200 years after being sunk by the British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson, one of Denmark's most famous warships has been discovered at the bottom of Copenhagen Harbor
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Stone Age boy in Sweden was buried in deerskin and a woodpecker headdress, archaeologists discover
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'Exceptionally rare' Roman lead blocks found on farmland in Wales
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17th century Swedish Navy shipwreck buried underwater in central Stockholm for 400 years has suddenly become visible due to unusually low Baltic Sea levels
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Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear
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Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating stories of love, loss and epic battles
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Maritime archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark have announced the discovery of what they describe as the world’s largest cog
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Scientists find foreign trees and one fingerprint on iron age warship from Scandinavia
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Swedish fisherman digging for worms stumbles upon cache of silver coins, beads, rings and pendants dating to the 12th century
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Denmark's National Museum unveils gaming piece which is believed to be the first portrait of a Viking – figurine depicts man with imperial moustache, braided beard and a neatly-groomed hairstyle
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Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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Mexico's butterfly warriors: Day of the Dead?
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The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are revealing the country's past in extraordinary detail.
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10th-century burial site believed to have belonged to a Viking noble family has been discovered in northern Denmark
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First intact Roman pot found in Ireland reveals ancient trade relations
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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
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Mayan site with pyramid and canal system discovered in Guatemala
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Ancient Roman wooden water pipe made from hollow tree trunks unearthed beneath a street in Belgium
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Roman-era battlefield mass grave discovered under Vienna football pitch
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Danish archaeological discovery has raised questions about the origins of the iconic Sutton Hoo helmet, thought for decades to have links to Sweden
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Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark – archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circle
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Thutmose II: First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's
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Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement
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Archaeologists discover stash of 1,500-year-old weapons – includes the only known Roman helmet ever found in Denmark
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Hidden pyramid structure discovered near Caral, Peru
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Archaeological dig at Notre-Dame unearths 2,000 years of history
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Lost Silk Road cities were just discovered using new tech - high altitude communities challenge previous consensus about life in Central Asia
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A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiform
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Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle
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Lost Silk Road cities unearthed in Uzbekistan's high mountains
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Secret tomb found under ‘Indiana Jones’ holy grail filming location in Petra
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Over 300 new 'Nazca Lines' geoglyphs have been revealed by AI
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Archaeology student unearths seven spectacular Viking-era curled silver arm rings north of Denmark's second-largest city Aarhus
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Extraordinary Roman marble floor discovered in ancient sunken city
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Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne
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Portuguese ship with treasure found in Namibian desert
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Ramses II’s long-lost sarcophagus has finally been identified
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Pompeii: new paintings found
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A discovery among the mummies reveals a sick, sad truth. Parasitic worms plagued these ancient Egyptian Pharaohs.
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Engraving on an almost 2,000-year-old knife believed to be the oldest runes ever found in Denmark
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Huge ancient city found in the Amazon
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Commentary - on archaeology and small mundane discoveries
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Scandinavia's oldest known ship burial is located in mid-Norway – Merovingian period discovery pushes back tradition of ship burials
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Another gold treasure discovery in Norway – thirty-five 1400 year old gold foil figures found in a pagan temple near Hov
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Norwegian family finds Viking-era relics while searching for a lost gold earring in their garden
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As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements
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Archaeologists reveal largest palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia
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Metal detectorist makes Norway's ‘gold find of century’ – cache comprised nine gold medallions and gold pearls that once formed an opulent necklace, as well as three gold rings
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Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
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Archaeologists in Turkey have identified massive structures below a Roman-era castle
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