Archaeological excavations or explorations are common and, sometimes, allow to know more in depth the life and evolution of great civilizations of the history of the human being on earth. Thousands of years of changes that come to the present, but there are times that a simple accident can take an incredible turn. And in Denmark one has just produced one that allows 11 centuries to be rolled back.
According to the information disseminated by the Museo Moesgaard an Aarhus (Denmark), a group of researchers ran into, without looking for it, with An X -century cemetery that, apparently, belonged to a noble family of Vikings.
Around 30 tombs in the Viking cemetery
The finding occurred while diverting various objects, such as pearls and coins, in a Lisbjerg area, a town just seven kilometers from Aarhus. While they worked in the designated area, they ran into what they later determined that they were about thirty tombs that corresponded to the Reign time of the well -known Harald Bluetooth In the mid -10th century.
Viking building.
Mads Ravnarchaeologist at the Moesgaard Museum of Aarhus, he declared in AFP: “It could have been one of the Counts or butlers by Harald Bluetooth. ”Whether or not, experts value this discovery as very positive, because it allows learn more about the functioning of the Viking nobility And how Harald Bluetooth dispersed several houses to drive and direct different areas.
On the objects found in the tombs along with the bone remains of the viking nobles, Ravn added: “People basically took to the grave what was important for them Because they wanted to transfer it to the other world. ”
