Scientists Stumble on a Long-Lost 'Galley Road' Used During Great Northern War to Transport Ships Secretly Recently a team of experts from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research has ...
The Galärvegen, or ‘Galley Road’, was a strip of land across which the forces of King Charles XII’s Swedish military transported twelve 30-ton ships. Charles had the ships carried across ...
In December 2024, archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) uncovered remnants of the Galärvegen route, a historic path used by King Charles XII of Sweden ...