"This will be exciting for all of us, regardless of whether you are an archaeologist or just have a medium interest in our past," says Viking ship expert Knut Paasche.
Digital archaeology
The Gjellestad Ship confirmed to be from the Viking Age
The Gjellestad Ship is quite clearly from the Viking Age, the Museum of Cultural History said today. “The investigations happily confirm our hypothesis from 2018, when we found the ship by ground-penetrating radar (GPR),” says Knut Paasche, head of NIKU’s department of digital archaeology.
New ship burial found in Norway
A high-resolution georadar has detected traces of a ship burial and a settlement that probably dates to the Merovingian or Viking Period at Edøy in Møre and Romsdal County in Norway.
Critical Digital Heritage 2020: Call for Papers
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What is left of the Gjellestad Ship?
Next week archaeologists will open trenches at the site of the Gjellestad Ship.
The technology behind the Gjellestad ship find
With the help of newly developed motorised georadar systems, NIKU's archaeologists did some major discoveries at Gjellestad - including a Viking Ship. But how does the technology work and what will happen next?
Film: The Gjellestad Ship
Here is a short film about the ship find.
Georadar detects a Viking ship in Norway
Archaeologists armed with a motorized high resolution georadar have found a Viking ship and a large number of burial mounds and longhouses in Østfold County in Norway.
Kurs i geofysiske undersøkelser på Universitetet i Reykjavik.
Denne uken gjorde NIKUs fagfolk geofysiske undersøkelser utenfor den islandske presidentboligen.
Viking ships come full circle?
Viking ships found in Iceland have decayed, with the “Saum”, or rivets, often the only parts of the famous boats still remaining. A group of scientists now believe we can learn a lot from the surviving pieces of iron and have brought them to Norway for examination.