The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

An archaeologist decided to take a shortcut on his way to work at a remote excavation site in Norway. Along the way, he noticed markings on a rock — and stumbled on dozens of 6,000-year-old ...

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 ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America. 5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered what might be the oldest known rock cravings made by humans over 200,000 years ago. The latest uncovering could transform entire understanding of human ...

Over 2,000 years after the first petroglyphs were carved into a boulder found in a New England River, controversy still ...

The Kalmar County in southern Sweden announced the discovery of an extremely rare Viking bracelet made of iron. The bracelet was unearthed by an anonymous resident in a marsh on the island of ...