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 ...

Drive north of the Swedish capital for about half an hour and you’ll reach the lakeside district of Vallentuna, a pleasant community with cobblestone churches, picnic areas and playgrounds. It’s also ...

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 ...

Seven Viking tombs holding well-preserved skeletons, including possible twin infants, have been discovered in the Swedish town of Sigtuna. The archaeologists discovered the 1,000-year-old remains of ...

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 ...

Swedish researchers are hoping to excavate a potentially very informative shipwreck from near Stockholm, one that speaks to an era in the 15th century, when ships were carrying increasingly heavy ...

A hoard of Viking silver, described as a once-in-a-lifetime discovery by onsite archeologists, has been unearthed in Täby, a municipality north of Stockholm. As the Archaeologists, a team of ...

Swedish archaeologists recently found an “unusual” Viking-era coffin dating back over 1,100 years. The discovery was announced by Arkeologerna, an archaeological organization affiliated with the ...

An 8-year-old girl who grew up in the Twin Cities and now lives in Sweden made the discovery of a lifetime earlier this summer while skipping rocks in a Swedish lake: a 1,500-year-old pre-Viking age ...