Two Viking-era swords were recently unearthed by archaeologists in Sweden. The weapons were once plunged into the earth vertically, between tombs at a mass burial site. While severely corroded by time, incredibly, they had lasted intact and remained in place for some 1,200 years.
It was a motorway expansion that prompted the two-year-long dig in Viby/Norrtuna, outside Köping in Västmanland, southeastern Sweden. Researchers shared their discovery.
