The remains of a dog dating back several millennia have been uncovered at a pre-Viking era burial site in Sweden, making it the oldest such find in the country.
Archaeologists have found well-preserved parts of a two-metre long sturgeon in the pantry of a Danish ship that sank in what is now Sweden more than half a millennium ago.
Swedish divers have discovered two wrecks believed to be warships sunk in the 17th century. And they think at least one can be linked to the Vasa, the iconic Swedish ship that sank on its maiden voyage.
What a team of Swedish archaeologists first believed to be a Bronze Age grave turned out to be a large penis that may have been used for sacrificial rites.
The Vikings invaded England in the 9th and 10th centuries. They plundered, raped and burned towns to the ground. Or at least, this is the story we know from school and popular culture.
Saga Vanecek, the girl who pulled a pre-Viking era sword from a Swedish lake, is now being rewarded for her efforts – and here's what's happening to the sword.
Archaeologists digging in Stockholm's Slussen area have stumbled on a unique find that has left them scratching their heads: hundreds of cannonballs from the 17th century. But who left them there and why?
A recreational fisherman was casting his line into the Gullman fjord in the Bohuslän Archipelago in September when he discovered human remains including a jawbone with teeth.
UPDATED: An eight-year-old Swedish-American girl came across an exciting find swimming at her local lake, when she pulled an ancient sword from its depths.
The news that an eight-year-old Swedish-American girl discovered a pre-Viking sword in a lake has caused excitement around the world, with many naming her the new Queen of Sweden.
Well, we still don't know, but researchers have at least shed some light on the mystery of the 8,000-year-old human skulls that were found impaled on stakes in central Sweden.
The Swedish National Maritime Museums has released a video of when its divers found a couple of centuries-old shipwrecks at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
<a href="theconversation.com/profiles/jan-apel-434379">Jan Apel</a>, senior archaeology lecturer at <a href="theconversation.com/institutions/lund-university-756">Lund University</a>, explores the origins of the first Scandinavians in this piece first published by The Conversation.
