More than 1,000 years ago, carvers in what is now Denmark set their chisels to rock to etch runestones — monuments to Viking ... about the rune-carver and those named on the stone is fascinating ...

Perhaps more so than any other historical site in Scandinavia, Jelling is a visible demonstration of the Viking Age transition from worshipping Norse gods to Christianity. The larger rune stone ...

The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed ... such as one about a powerful Viking queen or a warning for frigid climate change based on past events.

The Roseau 'rune' stone is a golf ball-sized stone encircled with a ring of markings. The stone was found near Roseau, Minnesota, between 1916-1918 and was thought by some to contain Viking runic ...

Archaeologists in Iceland have discovered what may be a rare Viking Age toy carved out of stone, but it's ... of the planned construction of avalanche protection walls in Seyðisfjörður and ...

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 ...