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The Vikings

For 400 years beginning in the ninth century A.D. these seafaring nomads shaped history from the Middle East to North America. Such finds as coin hoards and buried ships trace their rise and decline

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 216 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “The Vikings” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 216 No. 5 (), p. 66
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0567-66