Researchers examined rope cords and caulking material to determine the age of the fabled Hjortspring plank boat to narrow ...

A recent study reveals stunning new details about Scandinavia's oldest boat, including a fingerprint preserved in tar and chemical clues pointing to its origins in the Baltic region.

I initially interpreted the new community named Nomar as, literally, no mar as in no sea, which is technically true since it ...

In the fourth century BCE, mysterious raiders attacked a Danish island. Now we might finally know where they came from.

About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the ...

A fingerprint preserved in ancient tar and new chemical clues are helping scientists trace the origins of Scandinavia’s ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new ...

The wreck site of the boat, thought to have carried 80 passengers, was first discovered on the Danish island of Als and first ...

Mystery behind 2,400-year-old Danish canoe that carried 80 warriors finally unravelled - Boat found to have been waterproofed ...

A new analysis of the Hjortspring boat, an ancient wooden plank boat now on display in the National Museum of Denmark, has ...

A fingerprint has been found in the tars used to build the oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia, which provides a ...