Battle to save pristine prehistoric rock art from vast new quarry in Norway – archaeologists fear more than 2,000 carved figures could be destroyed ~humanities.history Article 629 words 19 votes
Scandinavia's oldest known ship burial is located in mid-Norway – Merovingian period discovery pushes back tradition of ship burials ~humanities.history Article 962 words 11 votes
Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway ~humanities.history Video 34:48 13 votes
Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway ~humanities.history Article 403 words 13 votes
Another gold treasure discovery in Norway – thirty-five 1400 year old gold foil figures found in a pagan temple near Hov ~humanities.history Article 1569 words, published Sep 19 2023 12 votes
Norwegian family finds Viking-era relics while searching for a lost gold earring in their garden ~humanities.history Article 9 votes
As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements ~humanities.history Article 826 words 10 votes
Norway remembers its wartime debt to Dumfries – special relationship being marked with the unveiling of a one-and-a-half tonne stone of friendship ~humanities.history Article 604 words 3 votes
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 ~humanities.history Article 476 words 8 votes
Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years ~humanities.history Article 414 words 11 votes
Capturing the spirit of ancient seafaring, the reconstructed Viking sailboat "Saga Farmann" has successfully completed an epic journey from Norway's Tønsberg to Istanbul ~humanities.history Article 609 words 16 votes
Medieval gaming piece in soapstone with runic inscription discovered in Trondheim, Norway ~humanities.history Article 590 words, published Jun 20 2023 18 votes
What happened to the old Norwegian flag? ~humanities.history Video 8:00, published Aug 12 2022 3 votes
World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing ~humanities.languages Article 476 words 9 votes
Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway ~humanities.history Video 11:42, published Dec 25 2022 4 votes
A shared celebration of Orthodox Christmas deep in the Arctic, undimmed by war and the round-the-clock polar night religion Article 1037 words 6 votes
Norwegian Jehovah's Witnesses no longer registered as religious community – due to exclusionary practices when someone breaks religious rules religion Link 7 votes
Minneapolis church still holds services in Norwegian – congregation was founded in 1922 at the tail end of a decades-long migration of Norwegians to Minnesota ~humanities.history Article 594 words 6 votes
Viking-era sword hilt found near grave of 'Gausel Queen' by amateur detectives – only twenty similar swords of this type have been found in Norway ~humanities.history Article 573 words 4 votes
With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic ~humanities.history Article 1419 words 10 votes
Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi ~humanities.history Article 997 words 4 votes
New gender-neutral pronoun is likely to enter the official Norwegian language within a year, the Language Council of Norway has confirmed ~humanities.languages Article 414 words 17 votes
Part of a Spitfire which was shot down over Norway during World War II has gone on display after being restored ~humanities.history Article 29 words 5 votes
Battle of Drøbak Sound, 1940 - "Either I will be decorated or court martialed. Fire!" ~humanities.history Video 7:46 6 votes
The secret of how Roald Amundsen beat Captain Robert Falcon Scott in race to south pole? A diet of raw penguin ~humanities.history Article 950 words 7 votes
Roads into Norway will get new signs with the country name also written in the indigenous Sámi language depending on the region ~humanities.languages Article 218 words 10 votes
This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo ~humanities.history Article 838 words 5 votes
Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years ~humanities.history Article 411 words 8 votes
An old Norse 'godhouse' has been discovered in Norway – site reflects how the rise of Christianity to the south affected the worship of the Norse pantheon ~humanities.history Article 700 words 8 votes
Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago ~humanities.history Article 688 words 5 votes
Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century ~humanities.history Article 181 words 6 votes
Norway's social-democratic compromise doesn't owe to some eternal national character – it was a product of the revolutionary struggles of the interwar period ~humanities.history Article 2742 words 7 votes
Treasure trove of artifacts illustrates life in a lost Viking mountain pass – Lendbreen, in Norway, was an important route from the Roman era until the late Middle Ages ~humanities.history Article 1299 words 8 votes
Birgit Maixner: ‘Place names are like fossils in the landscape. They tell us stories about the past – if we know how to interpret them’ ~humanities.history Article 1420 words 6 votes
Radar uncovers the remains of a Viking ship, discovered on a farm near a medieval church at Edøy in Norway ~humanities.history Article 353 words 7 votes
Oslo's city council wants the Norwegian capital to have an official name in Sámi ~humanities.languages Article 300 words 4 votes
Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway ~humanities.history Article 513 words, published Oct 10 2019 4 votes
A bronze cauldron dating back to the Roman Age has been unearthed in a burial cairn in central Norway ~humanities.history Article 491 words 10 votes
These circular ruins at Smeerenburg are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost ~humanities.history Article 387 words 4 votes
An archaeological fairytale – medieval ships found in the heart of Oslo ~humanities.history Article 542 words 5 votes
Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic ~humanities.history Article 422 words 7 votes
Death In Ice Valley – New clues in Isdal Woman mystery ~humanities.history Article 3036 words 4 votes