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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We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4
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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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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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Do not try this at home: Medieval medicine under the spotlight in major new project
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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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In the last decade, extensive fungal growth has developed in Danish museums parallel to climate change, challenging occupational health and heritage preservation
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Museums where you can discover the world's ten oldest artifacts
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Roman-era battlefield mass grave discovered under Vienna football pitch
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New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
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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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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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Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war
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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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Archaeologists discover stash of 1,500-year-old weapons – includes the only known Roman helmet ever found in Denmark
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Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the 1940s are being returned to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island
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National Museum of Denmark is handing over an iconic cloak belonging to an indigenous group in Brazil at a ceremony being attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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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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An American bought a $4 vase. Turns out, it's a lost ancient Maya treasure.
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A new exhibition opening at Denmark's National Museum is exploring the history and legacy of a mysterious female Viking sorceress known as the Völva
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Blacksmiths are reconstructing a Viking ship to better understand the secrets of the navigation of Scandinavian warriors a thousand years ago
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Why were Ancient Egyptians obsessed with cats?
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Vast coin collection of Danish butter magnate L.E. Bruun is set to finally go on sale a century after his death, and could fetch up to $72 million
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The Sámi museum Siida in Finland was awarded the top prize at this year's European Museum of the Year Awards
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The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage”
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Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
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Searching for Maura
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Israeli proposal to move early Christian mosaic to US Museum of the Bible sparks controversy
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Top-secret atomic bunker has opened to the public in Denmark – built to withstand a nuclear attack, it's now an astonishing subterranean museum
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Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn
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We need more nuance when talking about repatriation
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Intact ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara, the first in a century
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Darwin's Barometer
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This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
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A working flight simulator, no computers necessary
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You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.
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Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi
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Tenement Museum virtual tour
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Helicron propeller driven car (1932)
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Two Vikings from the same family are to be 'reunited' – DNA evidence has linked the skeleton from Oxford with another skeleton excavated in Denmark
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Turkey turns the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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Confronting the colonial legacies of museum collections
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The fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries
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Smithsonian Open Access - 2.8 million images and 3D models from the Institution's collections released into the public domain
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A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
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