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Archaeologists find 1,300-year-old ski

Melting glaciers in the high mountains of southern Norway are revealing some treasures from the country's past. Archaeologists working for Oppland County have reported...

Medieval graves unearthed in Oslo

Archaeologists working in advance of a major railway expansion project in Oslo have unearthed around 100 skeletons from more graves found in the area...

Stone Age brain stuns experts

Norwegian archaeologists working on a dig in Stokke, southwest of Oslo, have unearthed what they believe is the brain mass from a person living in the...

Archaeologists to dig into Oslo garden

Norwegian archaeologists think that treasures from the Iron Age and the Viking Age may be lying under the grass of a residential neighborhood in...

Viking sword found in Telemark

A farmer at Hjuksebø in the county of Telemark says it was just a matter of luck and coincidence that he hadn't destroyed a...

Six-year-old rewarded for rare gold coin

Andreas Øfstedal Clausen was out collecting seashells with his father along the Åbyfjord in Bamble last spring when he found something that proved to...

Hobby collector finds sensational buckle

Johannes Folkestad was out walking with his metal detector on a hilltop at Fjaler in the western Norwegian county of Sogn of Fjordane last...

Norway’s oldest city even older than thought

The Norwegian city of Tønsberg, about an hour's drive southwest of Oslo, was believed to have been founded around 1100 AD. Now archaeologists think...

Surprise discoveries halt restoration

Restoration work on the historic manor house in Eidsvoll where Norway's constitution was developed and signed in 1814 has come to a halt, following...

30 Viking graves found in Setesdal

Thirty graves believed to originate from the Viking period have been discovered in the valley of Setesdal, southern Norway. The major discovery earlier this...
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