They find seven tombs of the era vikinga in Sweden

Seven tombs of the end of the era vikinga, with several skeletons, the skull of a woman and other objects, were open pies this week near Orebro, in center of Sweden, declared the archaeologist Martin Edlund.

Until now we discovered seven tombs of vikingos and several objects. The tombs are very well conserved, like the objects, said Edlund, archaeologist of the National Direction of the Patrimony, that did not exclude to find other tombs.

Between the found objects, Edlund in particular talked about knives, objects of bronze and a necklace of Rep them coming from the Black Sea, which makes think that the tombs date from around century XI.

The finding of the seven tombs was realised in previous excavations to the construction of a new church, reviewed the agency of the news AFP.

The archaeologist also emphasized that the found skeletons corresponded to two vikingos that were baptized, discovery that described like rare in Sweden.

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