From Aftenposten: Viking graves to be re-opened.

The Viking graves that contained the famous ships Oseberg and Gokstad will be re-opened in September, in an effort to gain new knowledge from the remains of the two women and one man buried in them.

It will be the first time the graves have been opened in nearly 60 and 80 years, respectively.

Experts fear the human remains from Viking times may be in the process of disintegrating, if they haven’t already. They want to try to extract them to apply new methods of studying bone matter that can yield new information on the Vikings’ genetics and background.

When the skeletal remains of the man buried in the Godkstad mound were re-buried in 1928, they were [continue]