In many ways, archaeology is a race against the passage of time. Metals rust, organics degrade, fabrics unravel—and often rot, too, which means that it’s nearly impossible for clothing to last hundreds to thousands of years. But there are always exceptions.
Danish archaeologists with Arkæologi Vestjylland (Archaeology West Jutland) recently discovered the final resting place of a woman—whose 1,300-year-old tomb, remarkably, still retained pieces of textiles and a brooch from the Viking Age. As the team explained in a Facebook post (translated via Google), the preservation is “absolutely magical,” given the highly acidic nature of the soil in…
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