Info Of Virtual Reality Brings 9Th Century Viking Invaders' Campsite To Life

VR exhibition is based on many finds from the Vikings’ camp.

Photograph: Dalya Alberge

Exhibition to characteristic scenes too artefacts from large-scale wintertime base of operations where soldiers prepared to conquer Anglo-Saxons inwards 872

The Viking armies that invaded UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland inwards the 9th century were far larger than had previously been realised, according to academic inquiry that forms the footing for a groundbreaking virtual reality project.

A major exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum, staged inwards partnership amongst the British Museum, draws on novel inquiry yesteryear the universities of York too Sheffield. According to Professor Dawn Hadley, 1 of the co-directors of the universities’ projection at the site of a Viking wintertime camp, archeologists too historians had idea that the invading Viking armies numbered inwards the depression hundreds. But archeological run at the military camp on the river Trent at Torksey, Lincolnshire, suggested otherwise.

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