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Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm

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Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm

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Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 months ago

A man digging for worms at his summer house in Sweden has unearthed a stupendous treasure: a silver hoard of up to 20,000 coins from the Early Middle Ages.

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Incredible. I love this

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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