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A Feat of Engineering Transports the World’s Best-Preserved Viking Ship to Its New Home

Sep 17, 2025

In 1903, on a farm in southeastern Norway, a once-in-a-lifetime discovery emerged from within a large yet unassuming mound in a field. When the spot was excavated in 1904, the mound revealed an entire Viking longship that had been interred in its entirety as a burial...

A Feat of Engineering Transports the World’s Best-Preserved Viking Ship to Its New Home

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