Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

So much of history has been buried.

Colonialism takes quite a bit of the blame, as does nature itself, which has swallowed

the remains of entire civilizations over the years.

That's why archaeologists travel all over the world, trying to fill in the missing pages

of the historical record, one dig site at a time.

In 2004, a new dig site was unearthed, and in the most unusual of places, Marion Garry's

Backyard.

In 2003, lived in Buckhaven, a small town in Fife on the eastern coast of Scotland.

Residing along the North Sea, just across from Norway and the Netherlands, it wasn't completely

out of the question for Vikings to have landed along Scottish shores hundreds of years earlier.

In fact, from the 8th to the 15th centuries, Vikings and Norwegians did colonize parts

of Scotland.

This period of time is known as Scandinavian Scotland, and there is evidence of their presence

still around today.

For example, on the island known as the Brough of Berset, there are archaeological remains

of an entire Norse village.

But unfortunately, we know very little about this period.

Written records were stolen or destroyed, and the records that do exist tend to be biased

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