When Vikings sailed the North Sea in the 10th century, they recorded their exploits in runes, but that ancient alphabet is ...

With a lack of ancient human bone excavations in the region, finding human DNA within this piece of chewed-up birch bark was ...

Including the $20 serum Drew Barrymore likes to "douse" herself with and the $17 lotion Julia Roberts uses on her elbows, ...

The inscription measures roughly four by five feet. Within its chiseled border lie 255 runic symbols — characters from ...

Two Viking era stone grave markers thought to be 1,000 years old have been put on display in a church in the north of the Isle of Man. The carved monuments, known as the Manx crosses, were ...

The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found. Now, scientists in Norway are ...

The complete rune stone dated between 50 B.C. and 275 A.D., making it “the earliest known archaeologically dated rune-stone.” A diagram shows how the fragments of the Hole rune stone fit together.

New research by geneticists hints at the deadly work of Yersinia pestis 5,000 years ago. By Franz Lidz At the end of the Stone Age, some 5,300 years ago, the populations of Scandinavia and ...

Archaeologists have found a stone-paved cellar at a 5,000-year-old Stone Age site in Denmark, a discovery that points to a distinct leap in construction technology in ancient Scandinavia.

Such artefacts have been recovered in and around Scandinavia from the Stone Age into the Bronze Age, indicating that animal skin boats were likely well-known and in use in the region.

Around 5,000 years ago, the population in northern Europe collapsed, decimating Stone Age farming communities across the region. The cause of this calamity, called the Neolithic decline, has ...