Rök runestone, one of the world's most famous, is believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia. With hit TV shows and recent ...

Take a two-centre break in Stockholm and Uppsala and discover your inner Northman! Sweden is a big country. A land of rock, deep forests, rivers, lakes and seemingly endless coastline, and it’s from ...

The Viking Age conjures images of fierce warriors, longships cutting through icy waters, and raids that left their mark across Europe. But not all Vikings were the same. The groups from Norway, Sweden ...

Vikings in Sweden suffered from painful dental issues and occasionally tried to treat them, according to a new study. Vikings in Sweden suffered from painful dental issues and occasionally tried to ...

Archaeologists working on Björkö island in Sweden's Lake Mälaren discovered the remains of a Viking Age shipyard. In what has been described by archaeologists as the “first of its kind”, remains of a ...

In the autumn of 2020, I was contacted by the field archaeology unit of the Swedish National Historical Museums, who are also known as the Archaeologists. They were excavating at a Viking-age ...

In the autumn of 2020, I was contacted by the field archaeology unit of the Swedish National Historical Museums, who are also known as the Archaeologists. They were excavating at a Viking-age ...

SIGTUNA, SWEDEN—Live Science reports that seven Viking tombs were excavated in east-central Sweden ahead of a construction project. Archaeologist Johan Runer said the tombs held the remains of four ...

Vikings in Sweden suffered from painful dental issues and occasionally tried to treat them, according to a study published December 13, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Carolina Bertilsson ...