Archaeologists located a unique Viking Age shipyard site at Birka on Björkö in Lake Mälaren: “A site like this has never been found before”
Polish Jesuit books from the Riga Jesuit College Library (1583–1621) in the context of Polish and Latvian cultural and historical heritage
Hermann Göring’s Luftwaffe and the $6 billion deal: the lightning-fast occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany in 1940
Art historian Greger Sundin studied 16th and 17th century games that have been preserved in princely collections, in the Augsburg Art Cabinet
The Rök runestone, erected in Östergötland around 800 CE, is the world’s most famous runestone from the Viking Age, but has also proven to be one of the most difficult to interpret
Some of the deceased at the Levänluhta water burial site were accompanied by arm rings and necklaces made out of copper alloy, bronze or brass
The first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 years ago left their DNA behind in ancient chewing gums, which are masticated lumps made from birch bark pitch
Norway conserves archaeological finds from 1537, but not later ones. These have been the rules since the first cultural heritage law in 1905
A new study, published in PNAS, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalith tombs on Ireland and in Sweden
It’s been a towering landmark in the world of English literature for more than two centuries, but Beowulf is still the subject of fierce academic debate
