Archaeologists from the Stockholm Shipwreck Museum hope to secure funding for further research and excavation of the ...

Swedish researchers are hoping to excavate ... When discovered, they were thought to be Viking ships, but their exact date and type have been uncertain. “A year ago, we dated three of the ...

While digging to find an ancient settlement in southern Sweden, archaeologists made a completely unexpected discovery: an enormous Viking Age cemetery with more than 100 graves and several ship ...

Viking’s river ships cruise in Europe ... flame-effect firepits, Swedish granite, birch and juniper furniture and hand-woven textiles. There are several restaurants and bars, including Mamsen ...

No visit to Stockholm is complete without seeing at least some of the 30,000 islands that make up the beautiful Stockholm ...

An archaeologist working at the site in Tvååker, Sweden. Researchers have ... according to Nordin. Ship-shaped mounds from the Viking Age are burial mounds constructed in the shape of a ship ...

Sweden says it will step up insurance checks on foreign ships in a move aimed at tightening controls on Russia’s so-called ...

Archaeologists in Sweden uncovered a massive Viking-era cemetery near the village ... furnaces and flint but also cremation graves and ship-shaped stone settings. Petra Nordin, project leader ...

When stocky, blue-eyed Sten Schroder was 24, he saw a real Viking ship in a museum in Bygdoy ... Three weeks ago, with a crew of 15 stalwart young Swedish tram conductors, miners, plumbers ...

TVÅÅKER, SWEDEN—A Viking Age cemetery that contained more than 100 graves and several boat-shaped mounds known as stone ships has been found in southwestern Sweden by researchers led by Petra ...

Since the 19th century, researchers believe that five ships from the Swedish archipelago date back to the Viking Age. New research, including 3D surveys, shows they are much younger and that one ...