A MYSTERIOUS stone carved nearly 1,700 years ago has been unearthed in a region rich with Biblical history, where Jesus is ...

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it because a volcanic eruption covered the sky ...

Thousands of years ago, people on what is now the Danish island of Bornholm threw hundreds of mysteriously carved stones into a ditch before burying them.

Archaeologists have discovered some of the earliest-known stone fragments containing Germanic letter inscriptions at a grave ...

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

Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable archaeological contexts” and provide “insight into early runic writing ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

The sun stones correspond with the decline of the so-called Funnel Beaker tradition in European Neolithic culture, or the era ...

Evidence points to the possibility that the coffin belonged to an important person, perhaps the head of a prominent family.

How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts are being ... It could be because people there had plentiful hard stone – slate ­– which they carved the sun images on, but much of the rest of ...

Two of the Vasagård stones, carved with field and plant motifs ... annual sediment layers from ancient lakebeds, and tree rings that formed around the same time. In the ice core, in a layer ...