Archaeologists from Stockholm University's Archaeological Research Laboratory have located a unique Viking Age shipyard site at Birka on Bjorko in Lake Malaren. The discovery challenges previous theories about how the maritime activities of the Viking Age were organised. Replica of a Viking age ship at Birka [Credit: Sven Isaksson] "A site like this has never been found before, it is the first of its kind, but the finds convincingly show that it was a shipyard," says Sven...
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