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 ...

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.

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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 ...

New evidence has surfaced on the legendary Hjortspring boat, the oldest wooden plank boat in Scandinavia. Researchers are closer than ever to solving a century-long mystery. Who did the boat belong to ...

Researchers have discovered a 2,400-year-old fingerprint on Scandinavia’s oldest plank boat, likely belonging to someone who helped repair the craft. This finding will help elucidate the origins and ...