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

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

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

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 ...