The Oldest Known Rune Stone Fragments Found in Burial Sites, Hints at Germanic Ritual Practices Archaeologists discovered ...

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

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately drawn Sun motifs. Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been ...

The purpose of these so-called 'sun stones', and the reasons for throwing them into ditches en masse, have been something of a mystery – but ancient ice excavated from Greenland may have the answer.

Research links these stones, found at Vasagård, to a volcanic event causing low sunlight, indicating their spiritual attempts to combat climate change. However, ancient ice excavated from ...

And it long precedes the advent of dumbbells: the act of lifting stones as both a display and test of physical prowess can be traced back to early societies such as the ancient Greeks. Examples ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Hundreds of mysterious engraved “sun stones” unearthed in Denmark may ... How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts are being revealed by AI “It’s a good explanation,” says Jens Winther ...

Archaeologists discovered these enigmatic ancient stones on the island of Bornholm, 150 km south-east of Copenhagen, and have now used environmental data to link the timing of their burial with ...

These stones are pretty exclusive, as they only pop up in two known locations: Rispebjerg and Vasagård, on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm in the Nordic Sea. “They symbolized ...