Vikings & The Rus in Medieval Ukraine
Gone Medieval
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The Battle Over Ukraine's Past
Shestovitsa was a crucial site during the Viking Age. Archaeologists have found burial chambers and graves that are almost identical to sites like Beyker in Viking Age Sweden, but with artefacts that are a mix of Scandinavian and Slavic types. In 1946, under USSR rule, one archaeologist was sent to ShestovitsA to prove that there were no Scandinavian burials there at all - which was exactly the opposite of what was found. More recently, a brother and sister buried in the same mound were found through ancient DNA analysis to have Swedish ancestry. There's still an awful lot that we don't know about this particular site and how the Scandinavians and the Slav
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