A new analysis of the Hjortspring boat, an ancient wooden plank boat now on display in the National Museum of Denmark, has yielded clues to its potential origin—which has long been considered a ...

A faint fingerprint pressed into black tar more than two millennia ago may help archaeologists solve one of Northern Europe’s oldest maritime mysteries. The print was discovered on the Hjortspring ...

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 ...