“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 ...

It lay in a grave from the Viking Age. The stone was discovered when archaeologist Søren Diinhoff and his colleagues from the University Museum of Bergen excavated three women's graves in the autumn ...

some surrounded by stones arranged in the shape of boats—a practice known as "stone ship burial" that symbolizes the journey to the afterlife according to Viking beliefs. The site features three ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...