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Vikings’ lost possessions mark a long-hidden early trade route

Exceptionally well-preserved clothing — and even horse dung — line a path that travellers trod for more than 700 years.
Six people in blue coats use sticks to search for objects among rocks next to an expanse of ice.

Researchers survey a Norwegian mountain pass, where melting ice has yielded a hoard of items lost or discarded by people travelling centuries ago. Credit: Johan Wildhagen/Palookaville

A trove of ancient artefacts that melted out of a Norwegian glacier have revealed a route that Vikings and others used for centuries for travel and trade.

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Nature 580, 435 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01097-y

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