The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found. Now, scientists in Norway are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Dozens of stone circles discovered by chance have been identified as grave markers used to indicate the remains of children in Bronze Age and Iron Age Norway. Archaeologists from Norway's Museum ...

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 ...