When the human remains found on board the Swedish warship Vasa (1628) were investigated, it was determined that the skeleton designated G was a man. New research now shows that the skeleton is ...

When the Swedish warship Vasa sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea in 1628, around 30 people died. Their watery grave remained undisturbed for 333 years, until the wreck was raised from the depths in ...

Vasa was the world’s most high-tech warship when it set sail. Today, it’s a resource for naval historians and archaeologists–and a cautionary tale for those who seek to design technology. The story of ...

In August 1628, a hulking warship called the Vasa (named for Sweden’s royal family) began its highly anticipated maiden voyage from Stockholm. To say it didn’t go well would be the understatement of ...

When the human remains found on board the warship Vasa were investigated, it was determined that the skeleton designated G was a man. New research now shows that the skeleton is actually from a woman.

The Swedish Warship Vasa never made it out of Stockholm harbor. It sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, and nearly 400 years later, the ship is suffering a slow, inexorable decay in Sweden's Vasa Museum ...

Anders Franzén lived for shipwrecks. An engineer and expert on the naval warfare of the 16th and 17th centuries, he was especially obsessed with the old Swedish men-of-war that had once menaced the ...

The conservation of the royal warship Vasa, which sank in Stockholm on her maiden voyage in 1628 and was raised in 1961, has provided a unique insight into how large waterlogged wooden archaeological ...

Sean Mowbray is a freelance journalist based in Scotland who covers topics such as health, archaeology, and general science for Discover Magazine. View Full Profile. On August 10, 1628, Vasa, the ...

The Vasa was to be the ultimate warship, built for speed and power. Impossibly narrow of beam, she carried twice the firepower of other ships of her class -- 64 guns on two gundecks. On her maiden ...

Laboratory experiments with ammonia vapour on Vasa wood have been carried out to neutralize the acidity connected to the numerous outbreaks of acidic sulfate salts occurring on the wooden surfaces of ...