In an Iron Age burial ground surrounded by towering pines, rock fragments from the past have surfaced, and the faintly ...

British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in ...

The Oldest Known Rune Stone Fragments Found in Burial Sites, Hints at Germanic Ritual Practices Archaeologists discovered ...

Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient ...

The purpose of these so-called 'sun stones', and the reasons for throwing them into ditches en masse, have been something of a mystery – but ancient ice excavated from Greenland may have the answer.

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered fragments of the world’s oldest rune stone in Svingerud burial field, dating back to 50 BC–275 AD.

Piecing together fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone shows they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and may have ...

And it long precedes the advent of dumbbells: the act of lifting stones as both a display and test of physical prowess can be traced back to early societies such as the ancient Greeks. Examples ...

With the sun stones, there is in my mind no doubt.” Sørensen added, “It is quite simply an incredible discovery, which demonstrates that depositions honouring the sun is an ancient phenomenon ...

A team of researchers has found fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world in the Svingerud burial field, Norway. These ...