While both Sweden and Denmark have Viking Age heritage sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, Norway does not. 'That's a bit ...

Archaeologists from the Stockholm Shipwreck Museum are seeking funding to continue their research and excavation of a ...

Swedish Experts Are On the Case Researchers in Stockholm hope to get funds to excavate a 15th-century shipwreck from the waters near the city. An illustration of a Viking longship, c. 800 C.E ...

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 ...

A thousand years ago the Vikings of Scandinavia sailed and rowed their great open boats across the seas to Normandy, Iceland, Ireland and America with no protection but that of a huge dragon's ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a huge Viking burial ground featuring more than a hundred graves, including some shaped like ships. The burial ground came to light during investigations of an ...

Gold bird pendant. 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 ...

My husband and I traveled from Stockholm to Helsinki on the Viking Cinderella overnight ferry. We paid about $239 to upgrade to a seaside premium cabin, which had a bed, couch, and window. The ...

Viking Age ships (and all other ships ... Since the 19th century, researchers believe that five ships from the Swedish archipelago date back to the Viking Age. New research, including 3D surveys, ...

Archaeologists in Sweden were expecting to find an ancient settlement, but they were surprised to discover a Viking Age cemetery with boat-shaped burial outlines.