While digging to find an ancient settlement in southern Sweden, archaeologists made a completely unexpected discovery: an enormous Viking Age cemetery with more than 100 graves and several ship-shaped mounds.
As soon as excavations began, "we realized that there was a large Viking burial ground that we had to focus on," project leader Petra Nordin, an archaeologist at Sweden's National Historical Museums, said in a statement. "We have only excavated six percent of the burial ground."
