Nearly 4,000 potential hillforts exist throughout the Baltic region. Hillforts served multiple purposes, including defensive forts to protect against attack, wooden castles, and settlements. A ground penetrating radar (GPR) ...

The Algodones dune field, is located south-east of the Salton Sea in Southern California. The dune field is divided into two sections composed of a protected wilderness area (north) and a larger area of public land (south), ...

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys were conducted at the former Krošinskių Manor, located in Rokiškis, Lithuania, searching for remnants of the manor complex. The manor belonged to the Krošinskių family, who ruled the ...

The Trakas-Pempiškis woods, located to the south of Rokiškis, Lithuania, is the site of a mass execution of an estimated 28 Svėdasai Jews in the summer of 1941. During WWII, 95 percent of the Jewish population in Lithuania ...

Shortly after the Nazi occupation of Lithuania in June of 1941, they began to round up the country’s Jewish population as part of the Nazi’s “Final Solution”. At Fort IX as many as 45,000 Jews and Communists were killed ...

Major Karl Plague was a German officer during World War Two responsible for saving 250 Jewish forced labor workers at HKP 562 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The 750 other workers were captured and killed by Nazi SS members on ...

The Cape Kolka strandplain is located along the northern tip of Latvia, situated between the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Riga. The strandplain has been prograding due to excess sediment being carried northwards through ...