World's largest ever DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren't all Scandinavian (IMAGE)

St. John's College, University of Cambridge

World's largest ever DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren't all Scandinavian

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A mass grave of around 50 headless Vikings from a site in Dorset, UK. Some of these remains were used for DNA analysis.

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Dorset County Council/Oxford Archaeology

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