Sweden is a big country. A land of rock, deep forests, rivers, lakes and seemingly endless coastline, and it’s from this ...

However, in the centuries since the Vikings used the site, it has been plowed ... the news release from Arkeologerna and Sweden’s National Historical Museums.

they make up an archaeological complex which illustrates the elaborate trading networks of Viking-Age Europe and their influence on the subsequent history of Scandinavia. Birka was also important as ...

a "Viking Age settlement" located outside Stockholm, according to a press release from The Archaeologists at the National Historical Museums in Sweden. "They looked almost completely new," said ar ...

Of the more than 1,000 arm rings in the Swedish History Museum’s collection, only three are made of iron. This doesn’t mean that iron jewelry was uncommon during the Viking Age. Iron ...

A passerby discovered a rare Viking-era iron bracelet in a wetland on the Swedish island of Öland ... era bracelets in the country’s State Historical Museum, only three of the ancient objects ...