The Vikings were far from a monolithic group. The Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes each brought something different to the table ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drive north of the Swedish capital for about half an hour and you’ll reach the lakeside district of Vallentuna, a pleasant community with cobblestone churches, picnic areas and playgrounds. It’s also ...

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 study published December 13, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Carolina Bertilsson ...

Jens Christian Moesgaard receives funding from Gunnar Ekströms Stiftelse, and formerly received funding from Le Studium, Orléans and the Danish Ministry of Culture. In the autumn of 2020, I was ...

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 ...