Sweden Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New excavations have coaxed more secrets from Gribshunden, the flagship of the Danish-Norwegian King Hans which mysteriously sank in 1495 off the coast
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The remains of a famous Sami woman have been identified amongst Karolinska Institutet's anatomical collections. Representatives from the medical history and heritage department
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Sweden have every reason to be excited after learning a mountain climber came across an extraordinary 1,200-year-old brooch. Based on recent
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have located a unique Viking Age shipyard site at Birka on Björkö in Lake Mälaren. The discovery challenges previous theories about how
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A previously undiscovered wreck has been found outside of Fjällbacka on the Swedish west coast. Analysis of wood samples shows that it is
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeology students from the Uppsala University have uncovered the remains of an Iron Age warrior in Sweden. The find made during excavations in
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What at first glance looked like garbage turned out to be a valuable Bronze Age treasure. Tommy Karlsson, an orienteering enthusiast, accidentally stumbled
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Valsgärde is a large Viking burial cemetery located not far from Uppsala in Sweden. Today it’s just a name few, even in Sweden
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time ever archaeologists, religious historians, folklorists and literary scholars have worked together and produced a unique book that sheds new
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A rush of joy overwhelmed archaeologists today when they discovered a unique runestone that has been lost for 300 years! The runestone was
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Sometimes one should think twice before throwing away objects that may appear to have no value. About 40 years ago, farmer Håkan Linder
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are still many beautiful Viking Age treasures waiting to be discovered and one of them has just been unearthed on a farm
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - How many more stunning unknown runestones could still be scattered across Sweden? We cannot answer that question, but we can say with certainty
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd- AncientPages.com - The accidental discovery of thousands of mysterious ancient skeletons near Vreta Abbey is currently an archaeological sensation in Sweden. Many interesting discoveries have been
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are not many Viking ship burials in Sweden, or anywhere else for that matter. Viking ship burials are rare finds and whenever
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - This tiny, wooden horse may not be much to look at, and compared to other unearthed ancient artifacts it’s not very old at
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One of the most famous runestones, the Rök stone reveals Vikings feared climate change. Located in Östergötland County, Sweden, the - Rök Stone (in
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Linguistic Discoveries
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Have we misunderstood the contents of the famous epic poem Beowulf? According to one professor who spent eight years studying the poem, Beowulf
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com - Sweden’s capital Stockholm may be famous for many things, but discovering a rare 500-year-old shipwreck in the middle of the city was an
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Previously unknown motifs depicted on south-west Sweden’s best-preserved rock paintings have now been revealed by researchers at the University of Gothenburg. The art
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Three 400-year-old shipwrecks have been found during building work in central Gothenburg, Sweden. The wrecks were found during archaeological diggings in connection with
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - School children in Sweden have accomplished what adults failed to do. A group of fifth-grade students deciphered runes that were previously impossible to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For three weeks the royal warship Gribshunden (1495) has been excavated on the seabed of the Baltic Sea off the coast of southern
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A unique, ornate sword has been discovered in a mysterious pre-Viking tomb in Uppsala, Sweden. The sword belonged to a person of high
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two full-sized Viking burial ships have been discovered in the Swedish municipality of Uppsala, located in the central part of the country. According
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - It’s still possible to find interesting runes in Scandinavia. While excavating in Norrköping, Sweden, archaeologists had unearthed unusual runes that seem to have been deliberately created to
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - During the Viking Age females took part in battles and women could become great warriors. Archaeologists have examined an ancient tomb in the Viking town of Birka.
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - In ancient times, something horrible took place near Sandby borg ringfort on the island of Öland, Sweden. During excavations archaeologists unearthed many skeletons that revealed a massacre
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists unearthed a four-century-old ship wreck that used to belong to King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden has been uncovered in central Stockholm. Swedish archaeologists believe the
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