Swedish archaeologists have uncovered what appears to be a 5th-century murder mystery at an island fort that’s being compared to Italy’s Pompeii ruins. “It’s more of a frozen moment than you normally see in archaeology,” said Helene Wilhelmson, a researcher who specializes in the study of bones at Sweden’s Lund University. “It’s like Pompeii: Something terrible happened, and everything just stopped.” Five bodies already have been unearthed amid the ruins of one of the settlement’s houses on the island of Öland, just off the Swedish coast. In a news release, Lund University…
