Human bones that experts say are 1,500 years old were turned into officials in Germany in an IKEA shopping bag. Experts believe the bones were excavated by a volunteer on an archaeological dig in 1965 ...

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A volunteer helper from the 1965 excavation, who later moved to the Fulda area for work, was allowed to keep the skeletal ...

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Not many shopping bags have reached the popularity and ubiquity of IKEA’s blue Frakta bag. Meaning ‘to freight’ in Swedish, the Frakta bag’s durability, versatility, and high capacity have made it one ...

Worth $2,145. But that’s not the funniest part. No. The funniest part is that it bears a striking resemblance to another bag, namely IKEA’s iconic Frakta tote bag. You know, the big blue ...

LONDON — Hermes’ Birkin, Chanel’s flap bag, Louis Vuitton’s carryall — and Ikea’s Frakta? At its new Oxford Circus pop-up, the Swedish retailer is teeing up its famous blue tote to be ...