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50 Viking Age burials discovered in Denmark, including a woman in a rare 'Viking wagon'

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A Viking Age burial ground with the almost-complete skeletons of roughly 50 people has been unearthed in Denmark .

The discoveries were made near the village of Åsum on the island of Funen over the past six months .

Finding any human remains from the Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066) is rare, in part because Scandinavian soils are acidic.

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