About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the coast of southern Jutland in modern-day Denmark. The armada carried around ...

Mikael Fauvelle received funding for this research from the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation (Complex Canoes project), and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Maritime Encounters programme). Around ...

A fingerprint has been found in the tars used to build the oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia, which provides a direct link to the seaborne raiders who used the boat over 2,000 years ago.

Where these sea raiders might have come from, and why they attacked the island of Als has long been a mystery.” ...

Comparison of Hjortspring boat (Above, 3D model by Richard Potter) with securely dated Bronze Age art (Rørby sword and Sagaholm rock art) as well as an example of early Iron Age art from Brastad.

More than 41,000 people have now crossed the English Channel in small boats this year, after a sharp rise in arrivals over ...

CRN rounds up 10 cool tech products that were revealed ahead of their debut at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, ranging from a ...

Discovered in 1954 in a sealed pit south of the Great Pyramid, alongside the famed first Solar Boat, the Second Khufu Boat ...

Researchers have discovered a 2,400-year-old fingerprint on Scandinavia’s oldest plank boat, likely belonging to someone who helped repair the craft. This finding will help elucidate the origins and ...

An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where some mysterious attackers came from during the Iron Age. When you purchase ...

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of its history. On board the plank-built vessel was a hoard of weapons — swords, ...