How we unlocked the secrets of Denmark's oldest plank boat – with the help of an ancient fingerprint
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Lighthouse of Alexandria rises again: giant blocks resurface after 2,000 years
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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
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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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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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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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Ancient Roman wooden water pipe made from hollow tree trunks unearthed beneath a street in Belgium
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On the Norwegian coast, a tree is transformed into a boat the old-fashioned way at the Hardanger Maritime Centre museum
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Some of the world's most famous chess pieces, the Lewis chessmen from the 12th century, are coming “home” to Trondheim this spring in a special exhibition
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Five unusual ways people in different cultures used lead—and suffered for it
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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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The Vikings were part of a global network trading in ivory from Greenland
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Beyond the politics of nostalgia: What the fall of the steel industry can tell us about the future of America
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Was early modern writing paper expensive?
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Extraordinary Roman marble floor discovered in ancient sunken city
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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New analysis of wooden finds at Schöningen show wood was crucial raw material 300,000 years ago
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How to escape from the Iron Age? We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.
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The Silk Road: Eight goods traded along the ancient network
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Vikings and glass windows
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Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure: dating back half a million years and predating the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens
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The insane engineering of the M1 Abrams
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How polyester bounced back
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The ancient origins of glass
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Bricks and the Industrial Revolution
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Iron, how did they make it? Part I, Mining
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Correcting the historical bias against domestic materials
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Instant stone (just add water!)
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Ancient technology: Saxon glass-working experiment
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