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New research at Lund University in Sweden can now show what Stone Age people actually ate in southern Scandinavia 10 000 years ago. The importance of fish in the diet has proven to be greater than ex…
Since December, a team of archaeologists from the Museum of Copenhagen have secretly been excavating 20 skeletons discovered under City Hall Square. Credit: Copenhagen Museum The skeletons belong to …
A comb with a runic inscription of the word “comb,” perhaps doesn’t sound so sensational. But it is. The comb dates to the early Viking Age around 800 CE. Just a handful of runic texts from this peri…
In a new study published in PLoS Biology , an international research team suggests Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations after the last glacial maximum: an initial migration of groups from…
A wealth of stones have been discovered during an archaeological excavation on the Danish island of Bornholm, in the Baltic Sea. The small stones are covered in motifs carved by Stone Age people some…
For the first time ever, bones from the famous Danish Viking king, Gorm the Old, have been reconstructed and printed in 3D. A 3D print of Gorm the Old’s bones in full. The skeleton is incomplete [Cr…
Traces of three courtyards surrounded by a ditch marking out an area, which archaeologists have interpreted as the centre of a village dating back to the Middle Ages, have been discovered in Tollerup…
Two weeks ago Sweden surprised the Baltic region by signing a defence treaty with Finland. This treaty allows for both countries to assist each other in the case of a war as well as the creation of …
