And what would your own name have been? In his book Personnamnen i de medeltida svenska runinskrifterna (Personal names in medieval Swedish runic inscriptions), Lasse Mårtensson, Professor of Nordic ...

Laserdome Bromma, in Stockholm, Sweden, has opened 15 Quest mission rooms for visitors. It is described as “a fun, thrilling and challenging activity for all.” Using an area of 180sq.m, the mission ...

Archaeologists in Sweden were expecting to find an ancient ... Archaeologists also discovered a fragment of a silver coin from Arabia, which they dated to between 795 and 806, giving a general ...

The widely-tracked copper-to-gold ratio continues to slide in the wake of China's stimulus announcements, offering negative cues to risk assets. BTC's best years have been characterized by copper ...

Well-man skeleton (Åge Hojem NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet) The elusive medieval man’s bones were first found in the well at Sverresborg Castle, but researchers lacked the tools at the time to do much ...

Your jar of change could potentially be worth thousands of euros if you happen to have one of these particularly rare copper coins. While your summer holiday probably seem like a distant memory at ...

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the ...

The Sverris saga, a quasi-fictional historical account from the end of the 12th century CE, recaps the reign of the medieval Norwegian king Sverre Sigurdsson. One of the best-known passages ...

A new analysis indicates the human remains found in a well in Norway are from a 1197 raid described in a royal history. A new scientific examination of 800-year-old human remains in Norway ...

“Sure enough, he’s living on a medieval citadel,” Frachetti tells Scientific American. This second site—Tugunbulak—featured similar mounds. “We’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this place is ...