The ship was so big that it took more than a year for it to be raised from the surface of the seabed. The Vasa has been put back together and extensively restored since then, with more than 95 ...

The loss of the Vasa was a major setback for Sweden’s ambitions to become a power in the Baltic during a turbulent period of European history. Three centuries later, in 1961, the wreck of the ...

Archaeologists have found a unique weapons chest in a sunken 15th-century ship off the coast of Sweden, shedding more ... wrecks – such as Mars (1564) and Vasa (1628) – in order to understand ...