Iron_age

The following articles have been tagged with "Iron_age":

Controversy arises over ancient stone site

Society: 27 Jun 09
A high profile amateur archaeologist in southern Sweden is to be fined if he continues to post signs about his controversial theories on the origins of the popular Ale's Stones monument. READ »

'Viking ship' discovered in Sweden's largest lake

Science & Technology: 8 May 09
Marine archaeologists in Sweden have discovered what they believe to be the wreck of a Viking ship at the bottom the country's largest lake. Never before has a Viking vessel been found in Swedish waters. READ »

Man's body discovered near Uppsala

National: 29 Apr 09
A dead man was discovered around lunch time on Tuesday near an Iron Age graveyard outside of Uppsala in central Sweden. READ »

Swedish archaeologists find Iron Age wooden artifacts

Science & Technology: 23 Oct 08
A team of archaeologists digging near the planned expansion of a roadway have uncovered 1,700 year old artifacts made of wood, making them some of the oldest man-made wooden objects over discovered in Sweden. READ »

Novices dig up rare bronze bowl in western Sweden

Science & Technology: 1 Sep 08
Amateur archeologists digging near Skrea hill outside Falkenberg have unearthed a unique artifact. READ »

Viking treasure found near Arlanda

National: 4 Apr 08
A unique Viking-era silver treasure has been uncovered near Sweden’s Arlanda airport. READ »

Snow falling in central Sweden

National: 14 Jun 07
It might be only one week to Midsummer, but nobody seems to have told mother nature. Snow has returned to parts of central Sweden, with five centimetres falling in some places. READ »

Archaeologists discover Iron Age Mickey Mouse

Society: 8 Jun 07
Excavations at Uppåkra in southern Sweden have turned up an unusual bronze brooch dating from the Viking period. The piece was probably supposed to be a lion, but bears an uncanny resemblance to Walt Disney's legendary cartoon mouse. READ »

Stone Age remains found in Gothenburg

National: 26 Apr 07
People moving in to newly built apartments in the Kallebäck area of Gothenburg will be living on a site inhabited in the Stone Age, archaeologists find. READ »


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18 March 16:50

Day 22 – A Mongolian St. Paddy’s Day »

"During my misspent ‘yoof’ when I should have been learning Irish and French we used to quip the most random place you could be sent was outer Mongolia. Yesterday on the day my patron saint and namesake was being celebrated I found myself breaking bread with a classmate who hails from the country which has..." READ »

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