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Ancient Viking Town added to Unesco’s World Heritage List

Ancient Viking Town added to Unesco’s World Heritage List After 14 years of tireless work, the Viking town Hedeby, along with Dannevirke, which is the biggest defensive fortification in Nortern Europe, has now finally been accepted on Unesco’s world heritage list.

Ancient Viking Town added to Unesco’s World Heritage List 

http://norse-mythology.net/ancient-viking-town-added-to-unescos-world-heritage-list/

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Viking Town

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Ancient Viking Town and Dannevirke added to Unesco’s World Heritage List

After 14 years of tireless work, the Viking town Hedeby, along with Dannevirke, which is the biggest defensive fortification in northern Europe, has now fina...

Ancient Viking Town and Dannevirke added to Unesco’s World Heritage List  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_4o57HYn14

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Legendary Viking town unearthed

Danish archaeologists believe they have found the remains of the fabled Viking town Sliasthorp by the Schlei bay in northern Germany, near the Danish border.

According to texts from the 8th century, the town served as the centre of power for the first Scandinavian kings.

But historians have doubted whether Sliasthorp even existed. This doubt is now starting to falter, as archaeologists from Aarhus University are making one amazing discovery after the other in the German soil.

"This is huge. Wherever we dig, we find houses – we reckon there are around 200 of them,” says Andres Dobat, a lecturer in prehistoric archaeology at Aarhus University.

“And the houses we have dug up so far were filled with finds: beads, jewellery, pieces of broken glass, axes, keys and arrowheads.” Read more.