Eric Meyers
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2,596 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
Eric Meyers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Tonsbare archaeologist Terja Gansem was instrumental in reopening the investigation.
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He and everyone else wanted to find out more about the two mysterious women.
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it's intriguing.
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In 2007, the skeletons were disinterred in the hope that modern science could reveal something more about the two individuals.
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Ellen Marie Ness is the curator of the Osseburg exhibit in Oslo's Viking Ship Museum.
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The skeletons were forensically re-examined to confirm their sex and as far as possible their age at the time of death.
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This meant that they had both been born prior to what we now consider the start of the Viking Age, around 793 A.D.
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The two skeletons were incomplete.
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But from what remained, it was found that both had survived various injuries and ailments in their lives.
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But there was nothing to confirm what had killed either individual.
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Although it was found that the older woman had suffered for some time with cancer.
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Analysis of the isotopes contained within their tooth enamel revealed that one of the women was probably Scandinavian in origin or descent.
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While the other, the older, may have descended from further east, even as far as what is now Iran.
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The story of the excavation to raise the Osserberg is also intriguing.
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Tim travels south from Oslo to see for himself the mysterious mound in which the ship rested for more than a millennium.
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Tonsberg is one of the oldest towns in Norway.
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Bora, not far away, seems to have been an area for royal burials.
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Numerous mounds have been found here.
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But the Osaburg Mound is on its own.
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