Archaeologists have discovered 35 miniature gold-foil depictions of Norse gods tucked inside the remnants of a pagan temple in Norway.
"This is a very special find," Kathrine Stene, the archaeologist who led the excavation this summer, told Live Science."Each foil is quite small and measures about the size of a fingernail." "But more of these small pieces of gold keep appearing," Ingunn Marit Røstad, an archaeologist at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, told Science Norway."Either through excavation or with metal detectors. So, more could pop up in various places in Norway as well.""Normally we find these in special buildings that were once used for religious purposes," Stene said."We were surprised to find them in such a small building.