Finland Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is a large prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery south of the Arctic Circle. Scientists call the place a cemetery even though the graves are

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An interesting archaeological discovery has been made in Finland. In Salo Perttel, near the Medieval stone church, scientists have discovered a previously unknown

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A previously unknown Crusades-era bird pendant found in Lappajärvi in the 1960s is now in the collection of the Finnish Heritage Agency. The

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On December 13, the Feast of Saint Lucy is celebrated in some countries. This memorable Christmas holiday is of great importance, mainly in

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists working at an excavation site near Järvensuo in southwest Finland have discovered a 4,000-year-old wooden stick shaped like a snake. The sculpture -

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ever since the 17th century, human bones have been emerging from the spring-containing lake burial site at Levänluhta in Southern Ostrobothnia, western Finland. A

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - During the Iron Age around 300 AD something extraordinary was initiated in Levänluhta area in Isokyrö, SW Finland. People were buried in a

AncientPages.com - A submerged Stone Age settlement has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Kuolimojarvi in Finland. The prehistoric settlement is offering archaeologists and unique opportunity to learn

AncientPages.com - Stones  exposed to strong heat, are often found on old farms and they originate from the Viking Age and even earlier. Long ago, Vikings and their descendants

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Great power of the glacial melting water and movement of stones created some of the most spectacular potholes often called Giant's Kettles (or Giant's

AncientPages.com - On September 19, 1944, the Moscow Armistice was signed between Finland on one side and the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom on the other side. It

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Suomenlinna fortress is just as impressive as rich in history. Built in 1747 by Sweden on a group of islands located at the entrance