Colossal: In 1903, on a farm in southeastern Norway, a once-in-a-lifetime discovery emerged from within a large yet unassuming mound in a field. When the spot was excavated in 1904, the mound revealed an entire Viking longship that had been interred in its entirety as a burial containing the remains of two women, several animals, and a wide array of elaborately decorated objects.
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One of my favorite things is when humans restore historic large structures (especially ones as artistic as this ship). While not quite the same because they are using modern tactics to restore the ship, there is a historic Italian castle out in California that is now a winery, but the person who commissioned the castle decided he wanted it to be built in the exact same way and using the exact same tools (aka no modern tools) as they built the original castles in Italy. I think it is crazy that this ship was just found on a farm over 120 years ago. I looked up on a map where exactly the farm is and it is not as close to the coast as you would expect since they found a viking ship there which makes me have so many questions. But no matter how it got to the farm, I think it is very important for us humans to preserve as much of history as we can, we have so much to learn from it.
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