Every so often, an archaeological discovery is made that fundamentally challenges our timeline of human history.

And right now, the country of Norway is experiencing something like that, not exactly rewriting human history,

but at the very least, giving us a much higher resolution photograph of a very pivotal time, basically the transition

from the end of the Viking Age into what's colloquially called the medieval age.

And this discovery was basically made by accident. The whole thing dates back to April last

month when you had two metal detector enthusiasts doing a routine sweep only to discover

something of truly unprecedented scale. They were sweeping a field at the Morostat farm near

Rhena in southeastern Norway. That was when they uncovered 19 silver coins, which is already

amazing. I mean, if I discovered 19 silver Viking age coins,

I would be thrilled with myself. They were thrilled as well, and assuming that this find of

theirs could be quite historically important, they put down their tools and they contacted

the local government. Archaeological teams from Norway's Museum of Cultural History arrived on site,

and the scale of this finding of theirs just wound up getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

The 19 coins that they initially discovered soon became hundreds, and then soon it became thousands.

The discovery team soon brought in heavy machinery

to start peeling back layers of dense topsoil.

And as of right now, they're still working on the site.

But as of last week, the treasure tally has skyrocketed

to 4,772 silver coins.

And I will mention that as we're filming this program right now, the archaeologists

who are still on site, they're pulling up upwards of 100 coins per day out of the ground.

And to put that into perspective, this Morostat hoard, as it's being called, because it was

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