A Centuries-Old Mystery: Did This Elusive Viking City Exist?
Briefly

After the local government decided to build an observation tower atop a sandy hill on Wolin, an island in the Baltic Sea, a Polish archaeologist was called in to check the site before construction and look for buried artifacts from the spot's macabre past.Hangmen's Hill, a public park, had in earlier times been an execution ground, a cemetery and, some believe, a place for human sacrifices so who knew what grisly discoveries were in store?
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