A 500-year-old wooden box which was uncovered in a perfectly preserved state when a glacier in Norway melted contains the remains of a beeswax candle used to help Vikings find their farms, archaeologists have announced. Archaeologists removed the tight lid of the pine box with the leather straps, uncovered in Norway's Lendbreen ice patch, discovering the candle that was essential to Vikings hundreds of years ago. The Lendbreen ice patch has become a sought out destination for archaeologists since 2011, when teams discovered thousands of artifacts sticking out from the melting Norwegian glacier. ‘It is radiocarbon-dated to AD 1475-1635, so 400-500 years old,’ glacial archaeologists from the Secrets of the Ice team shared in a statement. The Lendbreen ice patch has produced more than 6,000 artifacts since archaeologists began investigating the area.

Source: Daily Mail June 07, 2021 16:29 UTC