A ‘Bearskin’ in Museum Storage Turns Out to Be Sweden’s Oldest Known Shoe
Leather fragments kept for decades in a Swedish museum under the label “bearskin” have been reidentified as something far rarer: the oldest known shoe remains…
Roman Iron Age
Viking Sea Power May Have Emerged in the Roman Era — Not the 8th Century
The Viking Age is traditionally dated to AD 793, when Scandinavian raiders attacked Lindisfarne. But new archaeological interpretations suggest that the foundations of Viking-style sea…