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

Researchers pieced the stone together like a jigsaw puzzle from various fragments found at an ancient burial ground.

Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

The earliest runestone ever to be reliably dated has been discovered at a grave field in Norway, providing some fascinating insights into the origins of runic writing. Engraved some time between 50 ...

identified as the world’s oldest rune stone, a study said. Photo from the Museum of Cultural History While archaeologists in Norway were excavating an ancient burial ground, they found ...

The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age ... three of them are inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes with Old English name elements, officials said. These runes likely correspond with ...

Aristos joined Newsweek in 2018 from IBTimes UK and had previously worked at The World ... use until around A.D. 700. The development of runic writing and the practice of inscribing runes on ...

While archaeologists in Norway were excavating an ancient burial ground ... which they identified as the world’s oldest known rune stone. But that turned out to be just the first piece of ...