January 10, 2022 05:24 pm GMT
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Vikings didn't invent those iconic horned helmets and probably never wore them
In 1942, a worker cutting peat in a bog in Viks, Denmark discovered two horned helmets that, archaeologists only now have determined, were forged in Sardinia during the Bronze Age. That means those iconic brain buckets were warn by warriors more than 2,000 years before the Vikings made the scene. — Read the rest
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