The history of the burial mounds in Uppsala stretches right back to the start of our era. It was here that the majestic royal burial mounds were established as a symbol for divinity and power. In the Gamla Uppsala Museum we tell of what we know, but also of what remains to be found out.

Gamla Uppsala is one of Scandinavia's most remarkable sites of prehistoric remains, a place which has fascinated people throughout time. After building of the three royal mounds 1,500 years ago, the site has continued to fire people's imagination. In the shadow of the three majestic royal mounds, we can glimpse ancient figures and events - powerful 6th century kings, Viking sacrifices, medieval pilgrims.

Tales of Gamla Uppsala are many. Here lay the seat of the Kings of Svea and the realm's most distinguished cult place. In the 11th century, Adam of Bremen writes of the gilded heathen temple in "Ubsola". Gustav Vasa speaks to his people from Tingshögen in the 16th century, and in the 17th century professor in Uppsala, Olof Rudbeck, is convinced Gamla Uppsala is original home to the cultures of the world.

The theme to fire imagination in Gamla Uppsala this year is sacrifice and heathen cult - just look in the programme, see exhibitions on offer. Numerous new finds tell of the efforts of Iron Age people to contact their gods.

Welcome to where Aesir gods, kings, guards, artisans and common ordinary folk from the Iron Age are given new life.