Researchers working in Marbella have uncovered a gabbro rock carving of manmade lines that could date to 200,000 years ago.

Along the way, he noticed markings on a rock — and stumbled on dozens of 6,000-year-old carvings ... Here are three of our most eye-catching archaeology stories from the past week.

Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off ...

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what the Norse language was like before the Viking era. Researchers from the ...

Examples of artificially altered bones belonging to island-dwelling Vikings may be examples of ... published in the journal Current Swedish Archaeology. Researchers think they may have been ...

Last year, the discovery of an ax head on a mountaintop overlooking Norway’s Trondheim Fjord led archaeologists to a tenth-century Viking grave. Though they found no remains, the team recovered ...

Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled ... satellite images to detect evidence of looters at archaeological sites in Egypt. This spring, her images also ...