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

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.

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 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 ...

However, early analysis of the giant block of stone suggest the carvings are potentially around 200,000 year olds, probably predating the oldest known cave art by 100,000 years. In a statement ...

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 ...

The Kalmar County in southern Sweden announced the discovery of an extremely rare Viking bracelet made of ... metal detectors to better understand the archaeological context, as the bracelet ...

Öland was once a key trading post for Sweden, especially during the Viking age. The country’s second-largest island sits off the southeast coast of the mainland, surrounded by the Baltic Sea. It was ...

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