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Viking Ship Found in the Netherlands

Evidence of Viking activity in the former trading city of Dorestad.

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Mar 27, 2026
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Workers laying pipes along a promenade in the Dutch city of Wijk bij Duurstede found a three-meter-long wooden plank that may be from a Viking ship.

It was amateur archaeologist Danny van Basten who noticed the plank during the excavation work. Shipbuilder Kees Sterrenburg examined the find and determined that it is a ship’s frame – a structural part of …

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