World's largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren't all Scandinavian
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 14:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Invaders, pirates, warriors - the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their way across Europe and beyond. Now cutting-edge DNA sequencing of more than 400 Viking skeletons from archaeological sites scattered across Europe and Greenland will rewrite the history books.