is mediating negotiations with the group.

The area where the ship was found is now the oldest known ship trench in Scandinavia.animal bones and a seated skeleton with a sword.

said that dating the ship back that far shows that people had maritime expertise and could build large ships much earlier than previously thought.said that the ship was built in approximately 700 A.The ship is from the Merovingian Era.

but the ship itself appeared to have been buried centuries later.and noted that the Merovingian Era precedes the Viking era.

The burial mound is over 196 feet long.

because it was believed they offered safe passage to the afterlife.and then that obviously is deadly.

Otherwise were going to have famines unlike anything weve ever seen in history.Beasley said hes able to walk around and get fresh air

but poses no threat to the planet.Scientists at NASAs Center for Near-Earth Object Studies said it will make its closest approach to Earth on April 29.