Archaeologists in Norway have revealed that more than 40 ancient stone circle formations discovered in the country's south last year turned out to be children's graves. Last year, a team from ...

Three Viking graves excavated in Norway contain coins from distant lands and an oddly symbolic stone carved to look like female genitalia. The graves, all of which seemed to belong to women ...

Archaeologists who originally unearthed the oldest known rune stone in 2021 while investigating an ancient grave site in eastern Norway found ... the best way to put them together.

This may be one of the first attempts to use runes in Norway and Scandinavia on stone,” Kristel Zilmer, a professor at the University of Oslo, of which the museum is part, told The Associated Press.

Norway, and finished work in 2023. The site included four grave mounds and a pair of “flat graves,” all mostly filled with “typical” artifacts — except for one red stone. A photo shows ...

carved stone in an ancient cremation pit in 2021 at the Svingerud dig site in eastern Norway — and then they found more pieces nearby. When the team recently put the fragments together ...

Archaeologists in Hole, Norway, unearthed 12 fragments of a carved standing stone, identified as the world’s oldest rune stone, a study said. Photo from the Museum of Cultural History While ...