Sandby Borg held deep mysteries beneath its surface. Excavations began under the direction of archaeologists from the Kalmar County Museum, Helena Victor and Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay. In the first year, ...

About 1,500 years ago, something terrible happened at Sandby borg, a ringfort on the beautiful island of Öland, off Sweden's southeast Baltic coast.

An apparent lack of looting at Sandby borg adds another layer of mystery to the massacre. Experts found silver brooches and pendants, imported glass beads, cowrie shells from the Mediterranean or ...

Because people were afraid to loot or touch Sandby Borg, the town has remained frozen in time, with all its artifacts intact. It offers archaeologists a perfect snapshot of life in the mid-400s ...

The Sandby borg ringfort consists of an oval-shaped wall enclosing more than 50 houses, located along the shoreline of Öland. These sorts of ringforts and houses, along with cemeteries and graves ...

SUDDEN DEATH Excavations at Sandby borg, an ancient ringfort on an island off Sweden’s southeastern coast, have uncovered evidence of a possible surprise attack and massacre of the site’s ...

In a paper published in the journal Antiquity, the team writes about the 1,500 year old attack at Sandby borg. Dozens of corpses have been found in the walled fort, their bodies left to rot where ...

About 1,500 years ago, something terrible happened at Sandby borg, a ringfort on the beautiful island of Öland, off Sweden’s southeast Baltic coast. Yearly excavations beginning in 2011 ...