New finds on the Baltic Sea island of Gotska Sandön: researchers have now uncovered parts of an Iron Age port
A new research now shows that a skeleton found on board the warship Vasa is actually from a woman; the ship sank on its maiden voyage in 1628
Polish Jesuit books from the Riga Jesuit College Library (1583–1621) in the context of Polish and Latvian cultural and historical heritage
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
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
A new study, published in PNAS, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalith tombs on Ireland and in Sweden
