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Norway Set for $47 Billion Super-highway to Transform Coastline

Norway has developed plans to take on its largest infrastructure project to date, a $47 billion scheme set to transform the country's western coastline with a series of tunnels and bridges in a highway that will create a brilliant...

Rare Bronze Age Arrow Discovered in Melting Ice

Archaeologists have recently made an exciting discovery in the mountains of Norway: a truly unusual ancient arrow with its original quartzite arrowhead and feather tail still intact. This arrow, believed to have been employed by reindeer hunters around three thousand...

The Mysterious Island of Thule in Greek Mythology

Most mythological places in ancient Greek records are to be found somewhere around the Mediterranean. However, one location from Greek mythology is quite different. This is the island of Thule. According to ancient Greek records, the legendary island of Thule...

How Did an Ancient Byzantine Gold Coin End Up in Norway?

A Byzantium-era gold coin that was recently discovered in the mountains of southern Norway has historians and archaeologists perplexed over how it ended up there. The coin is a Byzantine histamenon nomisma. These were introduced in Byzantium around 960 AD...

Merovingian Ship Burial Found in Norway

Dating efforts of a ship burial on Norway's north-central island of Leka have revealed it is the oldest known such burial in Scandinavia. It predates the Viking Age. Archaeologists and a metal detectorist found the ship last summer on Herlaugshaugen,...

When an Amateur Metal Hunter Made the ‘Gold Find of the Century’

Last summer, an amateur metal detectorist in Norway discovered what archaeologists have hailed as Norway’s “gold find of the century”. He dug up nine engraved gold pendants, ten gold pearls, and three gold rings—all dating to the sixth century A.D....

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Is Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 was awarded on Friday to Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi. The Nobel Committee said she was awarded the prize "for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to...

Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 Awarded to Norwegian Jon Fosse

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 was awarded to Norwegian writer Jon Fosse whose works span 40 plays, a wealth of novels, essays, children's books and translations. The Swedish Academy in Stockholm praised his innovative plays and prose and said...

Viking-Era Relics Found While Looking for An Earring

In Norway, a family found something valuable and antique using a metal detector. This family was searching for a lost gold earring in their garden when their metal detector uncovered ancient artifacts that were over 1,000 years old. Local...

1400-Year-Old Gold Foil Figures Discovered in Pagan Temple in Norway

In a recent development in Vingrom, located to the south of Lillehammer by Lake Mjøsa in Norway, archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable collection of tiny gold objects. These gold pieces no bigger than a fingernail and as thin as...