Old age. Cancer. A rare disease of the nervous system. Whatever the reason, the fact remains: A life is about to run out. Sometime in the next few days or weeks, death will be a fact. It is during ...

At the end of the 19th century, people emptied the water out of an old quarry in Trøndelag in mid-Norway. Some thought that it might contain a large silver deposit. But the only thing they found were ...

The pieces are tiny, about the size of a fingernail. They are flat and thin as paper, often square, and stamped with a motif. Usually, they depict a man and a woman in various types of clothing, ...

Did Pacific Islanders and Native Americans ever have contact? This has long been a major question for anthropologists. When Thor Heyerdahl boarded the Kon-Tiki balsa raft in 1947, he hoped to finally ...

It all began when rivets were found with a metal detector in a field at Jarlsberg Manor in southeastern Norway in 2018. Surveys with ground-penetrating radar confirmed that there was once a burial ...

In recent years, archaeologists who study Norway during the Bronze Age have discovered a great deal of new information. Some now have a completely different perspective on this period. Colleagues in ...

In 2020, the Norwegian Polar Institute determined that a major upgrade was needed. Now the plan is to build a completely new station. Led by the Minister of Climate and Environment, Espen Barth Eide ...

Lively communities for trade emerged in the Middle Ages and populations grew dense. This created opportunities as well as problems. One of those worries was sanitation, specifically the treatment of ...

“Violence was much more prevalent in Norwegian society during the Viking Age than in Denmark,” Professor Jan Bill at the University of Oslo tells the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK. Bill is ...

Not many years ago, Norwegian schoolchildren learned that spruce trees came to Norway from the east between 2 000 and 3 000 years ago. But ten years ago, researchers at Umeå University in Sweden ...

For several decades — and especially after 11 September 2001 — there has been a great focus on radical ideas. Especially Islamic extremism. At the same time, this focus has created a blind spot, ...

About 380 million years ago, our ancestors stopped being fish and came up on land. Some animals, however, found their way back to the ocean. Whales, seals, and manatees are examples of this. Even ...