A single fingerprint in ancient tar is rewriting the story of one of Scandinavia’s earliest seaborne raids. Researchers have ...

Scientists have managed to sequence human DNA from chewing gum that is almost 10,000 years old. Found in Huseby Klev, a Mesolithic site in western Sweden, these findings shed new light on both the ...

Ancient Scandinavians quaffed an alcoholic mixture of barley, honey, cranberries, herbs and even grape wine imported from Greece and Rome, new research finds. This Nordic "grog" predates the Vikings.

A new study is shedding light on the violent history of Scandinavia which saw multiple waves of mass murder across Denmark in just a thousand years. A team of international researchers analyzed DNA ...

During the Viking Age, from 750 to 1050 C.E., Scandinavians were on the move. The seafaring Vikings were the first people to reach four different continents, visiting Europe, Asia, Africa and North ...

More than 10,000 years ago, humans who settled in what is now Sweden chewed gobs of sticky pitch, a tar-like material extracted from birch bark. This ancient "gum," recovered from a Mesolithic ...

Researchers say that the Viking Age left an imprint on the genetics of present-day Scandinavians. In an international study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists found that DNA from ...

Also available as an ebook. ANTH copy Purchased from the Jean Axelrod Acquisitions Endowment. "Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an ...

May 15 (UPI) --Scientists have recovered human DNA from 10,000-year-old chewing gum found in Sweden. The DNA is the oldest to be sequenced from the region. Researchers found the masticated lumps of ...

10,000-year-old gum, made from sticky Birch tree bark, discovered in Scandinavia contains the oldest DNA ever found in the region. Natalija Kashuba/Stockholm Unive Ancient chewing gum found by ...

Archaeologists have found evidence suggesting leprosy may have spread to Britain from Scandinavia. The team examined a 1500 year old male skeleton, excavated at Great Chesterford in Essex, England ...

In Los Angeles, a Scandinavian-style spec house—named Odin for the one-eyed Norse god—is asking $22.9 million. Materials used in the house, including aromatic cedar, knotty oak and rustic stones, ...