Category: News

Bettany Hughes: Treasures of the World

Gold ring from Ure, Saaremaa. For more information, look: here. Photos are from: here. We are very glad to have been part of the filming the third season of the documentary series “Treasures of...

Read More

17 June 2023

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...

Read More

Saaremaa excavations unearth Estonia’s oldest artifacts

Margus Muld Saaremaa excavations unearth Estonia’s oldest artifacts Read other news...

Read More

13 May 2023

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...

Read More

Grant for the production of audiovisual material about the past of Saaremaa

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...

Read More

29 April 2023

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...

Read More

12 December 2022

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...

Read More

22 November 2022

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...

Read More

International conference: Vikings before the Vikings

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...

Read More

News from the excavations: 20 August 2022

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...

Read More