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  • New images may yield Viking ships

    10/04/2010 6:43:52 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 16 replies
    Views and News from Norway ^ | September 24, 2010 | Sven Goll
    Archaeologists think they have found two more Viking ships buried in Vestfold County south of Oslo. The biggest may be 25 metres long, larger than any found so far. Road construction near the old Viking trading center at Kaupang has led to the discovery of two large ship silhouettes on ground radar pictures. The pictures have been made possible through a venture involving the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning, NIKU) and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archeological Prospection and Virtual Archeology. They portray some "exciting" images with the help of high tech methods including satellites,...