A Viking-age woven band of silk displays patterns in silver thread discovered to be Arabic script Annika Larsson/ Uppsala University Editor's note, October 16, 2017: Stephennie Mulder, an associate ...
Burial costumes from Viking boat graves have provided more evidence of contact between Nordic tribes and ancient Islam. A study of the garments, found in 9th and 10th century graves, has revealed the ...
One of the excavated fragments made from fine silk and silver thread discovered at the two Swedish sites, Birka and Gamla Uppsala Researchers in Sweden have found Arabic characters woven into burial ...