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 ...
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 ...
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.
How we unlocked the secrets of Denmark’s oldest plank boat – with the help of an ancient fingerprint
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 ...
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