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1,200-year-old Viking cemetery with ‘stone ship’ burials discovered in Sweden

While digging to find an ancient settlement in southern Sweden, archaeologists made a completely unexpected discovery: an enormous Viking Age cemetery with more than 100 graves and several ship-shaped mounds. As soon as excavations began, “we realized that there was a large Viking burial ground that we had to focus on,” project leader Petra Nordinan […]