“Through measurements and surface analysis, three stone disks exhibit similarities to the Viking sun compasses, with a limited number of examples found in Greenland and the Baltic Sea region ...

As this land was used over the following centuries, ploughed down and levelled to cultivate crops and create pastures, the ancient superstructures disappeared and the Viking Age graves were broken.

But many of these stones are from the age of the Vikings, about AD 800 to 1050, and few examples of early runes exist. Archaeologists who originally unearthed the oldest known rune stone in 2021 ...

Archaeologists in Sweden were expecting to find an ancient settlement, but they were surprised to discover a Viking Age cemetery ... ship's outline — known as a stone ship — may also have ...

It is thought the larger stone was part of a bigger memorial for a wealthy person Two Viking era stone crosses discovered in a Jurby churchyard are "unique" on the island, a heritage body has said.

Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in Iceland have discovered what may be a rare Viking Age toy carved out of stone, but it's anyone's guess as to which animal it depicts. The figurine ...

Evidence of runic writing exists from the Roman Iron Age and the Viking era ... of the earliest known examples of runic writing, dating back about 2,000 years. The stone may have once marked ...

“Through measurements and surface analysis, three stone disks exhibit similarities to the Viking sun compasses, with a limited number of examples found in Greenland and the Baltic Sea region,” the ...

Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered a mysterious Viking Age burial ground with graves shaped like stone ships. As many as 139 of these graves have been found so far at the site near Varberg ...