A fingerprint has been found in the tars used to build the oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia, which provides a direct link to the seaborne raiders who used the boat over 2,000 years ago.

About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the coast of southern Jutland in modern-day Denmark. The armada carried around ...

The oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia has yielded an unexpectedly intimate clue about the people who once rode it into battle: a partial fingerprint pressed into ancient tar. That tiny ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The replica of the “Seneca Chief” — the boat known as the first to open the Erie Canal — is inching closer to setting sail. “We wanted to build it on the sight, we wanted to ...

Comparison of Hjortspring boat (Above, 3D model by Richard Potter) with securely dated Bronze Age art (Rørby sword and Sagaholm rock art) as well as an example of early Iron Age art from Brastad.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Hjortspring boat is now on display at the National Museum of Denmark. | Credit: Boel Bengtsson; CC BY 4.0 A sea raiders' boat ...

Vikings Heading for Land, by Frank Dicksee (1873). Christie's via Wikimedia Around 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off ...