Once sailed by the Vikings, then criss-crossed by the merchants of ... Just across from Helsinki, on the south shores of the Gulf of Finland, Tallinn is the capital and cultural hub – an alluring and ...

Regarding the posted growth in freight volumes, the company pointed to a focus on long-term customer relationships as well as the launch of a green corridor between Finland and Sweden. In the first ...

The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis as it’s formally known, is a unique natural phenomenon only observable in territories near the Arctic Circle such as Canada, Finland ... appearing on the shores ...

New research has revealed the horrors of the Viking age, as the study of skulls showed evidence of devastating disease and infections. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden used ...

A Baltic Sea ferry operator, Viking Line, along with the Swedish port of Stockholm and Turku, Finland, have celebrated their first ... though arguably question how it reached our shores, is the ...

When in the capital of Norway, travelers can explore the many museums, from the ski museum to the Viking Ship Museum ... Malaga, Spain Set along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, the port ...

British historians recently announced the remarkable discovery of a 1,000-year-old Viking "wallet," thanks to two curious metal detectorists. Manx National Heritage, an organization based on the ...

Viking today announced its newest ocean ship—the 998-guest Viking Vesta—was “floated out,” marking a major construction milestone and the first time the ship has touched water. Scheduled ...

but the beaches would be closed at night to stop people from swimming to Finland or sailing to freedom,” says Triin Saks, the curator of Käsmu Maritime Museum, where Viking swords and ...

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 ...

An artistic representation of the Gotlant burial of a Viking-era woman with a modified skull Current Swedish Archaeology / Mirosław Kuźma / Matthias Toplak Examples of artificially altered bones ...