How a Seventeenth-century illustration helps archaeologists discover Viking ships

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Enlarge In 1650, a Danish doctor and antiquarian named Ole Worm performed the primary survey of a Viking cremation burial web site generally known as the Kalvestene. Worm created a map of the areas of all of the “ship settings”—stones organized within the form of vessels—marking the graves. Now, a workforce of archaeologists has compared its …
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