A Swedish museum has launched a massive four-year project to preserve the sagging hull of the Vasa, a majestic warship that sank nearly 400 years ago and is now one ...

Quite a few stones that look like penises, so-called phallic stones, have been found. Now archaeologists believe they have ...

Where did the Sutton Hoo helmet come from? Archaeologists have long agreed that the iconic Anglo-Saxon artifact was likely ...

Since its discovery in 1939, archaeologists have pointed to Sweden as the source of Sutton Hoo's haul. A Danish stamp says ...

An unidentified man found the armlet in a wetland last fall. Kalmar County Administrative Board. Last fall, a Swedish man ...

Spectacularly Consistent with Viking Mar 25th, 2025 Viking is just so utterly consistent in how they run their ships, which is one of the things we love about them. The staterooms, food ...

An “attentive private person” has made an astonishing discovery in a Swedish wetland: an extremely rare Viking-era arm brace ... in the State Historical Museum are made of iron,” they ...

Peter Siebert, president and CEO of Independence Seaport Museum, stands among the model ships on display in the exhibit, ''Small but Mighty!: Models, Toys, and Miniature Ships.'' (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) ...

On the Swedish island of Öland, a passerby recently noticed something peeking out of a wetland. As they approached, they thought it was nothing more than a rusty brown loop, but it instead turned out ...

LOS ANGELES – US President Donald Trump’s plan to revive US shipbuilding using massive fees on China-linked ship visits to American ports is causing US coal inventories to swell and stoking ...

Similar Viking armbands have been found before, but these items are typically made of bronze or silver. Sweden’s National Historical Museum has over 1,000 armbands, yet only three are made of ...