Exhibition: ‘Face to face with medieval Saaremaa islanders‘ at Saaremaa Museum is opened from 14-07.2023 until 30.08.2024! The 13th-century is considered a revolutionary period in the...
Yesterday and the day before, geologists from the University of Tartu, led by Alar Rosentau, contributed to the exploration of Osiliana. They tested the preliminary findings of last year’s...
Well-known historical documentary filmmaker Bettany Hughes was in Saaremaa with her crew to discover more about the past of Estonian biggest island and its surroundings. Osiliana gladly contributed...
Some time ago, ETAG launched a call for proposals to promote science. A total of 97 projects were submitted and 29 were selected. One of the lucky ones was Osiliana! The grant is intended for the...
This year’s fieldwork season opened on 29 April! The end of April and the beginning of May are the best times for landscape inspections, as the trees are not yet in leaf and everything is...
The first aDNA results of Saaremaa’s 13th-14th century burials are here! The first samples were mainly taken from the cemetery at the former Karja manor, but also some from burials in the Loona...
Two skulls found in Saaremaa have now been scanned on behalf of Osiliana and reconstructions based on these will be completed by the beginning of the next summer. The first one is a skull of a 40-50...
Saaremaa Museum has published videos of all the presentations from the international conference “Vikings before the Vikings”, which took place on 6-7 May 2022 and was supported by...
On 20 August, we presented the ongoing archaeological excavations in the Valjala countryside, the findings and the first hypotheses. Take a look at the news video about it (in...
