One of the first Viking settlements in Ireland, Linn Duchaill, has been found. “Dublin developed more as a trading town, this appeared to be more of a raiding town,” explained researcher Micheál McKeown. He estimates that there were 5,000 Vikings and 200 ships at this defended position on the River Glyde during the ninth century. […]

A thirteenth-century Mongolian ship has been found off the coast of Japan. It is thought to be one of the 4,400 ships in Kublai Khan’s ill-fated invasion fleet. A 900-year-old Sican tomb has been uncovered in Lambayeque, Peru. “On reaching the level of the burial the person’s tomb appeared, first with a crown of copper and silver, […]