Researchers have examined the teeth of Swedish Vikings and found that aside from evidence of decay and loss, they engaged in surprisingly advanced dental practices not dissimilar from modern practices ...

As it turns out, even the now long-dead Vikings couldn’t escape a trip to the dentist. After spending around 1,000 years in the ground, the skeletal remains of over 100 Swedish Vikings were exhumed ...

Vikings in Sweden suffered from painful dental issues and occasionally tried to treat them, according to a new study. Vikings in Sweden suffered from painful dental issues and occasionally tried to ...

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Archaeologists working on Björkö island in Sweden's Lake Mälaren discovered the remains of a Viking Age shipyard. In what has been described by archaeologists as the “first of its kind”, remains of a ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

A graduate student in Sweden has been learning about Vikings through an unusual method: He's done it by sailing like one. Archaeologist Greer Jarrett, a doctoral student at Lund University, has ...

Archaeologists in Sweden say they’ve uncovered a “one of its kind” Thor’s hammer amulet. The well-preserved Thor’s hammer — officially known as an torshammare — was discovered in Ysby in Sweden’s ...