Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

A famed Viking-age silver hoard discovered in Scotland may have belonged to an entire community of people, rather than one ...

A newly deciphered inscription suggests the immense "Galloway Hoard" found in Scotland over a decade ago was held in common.

Learn about the Svingerud Stone, a runestone found in a Norwegian grave site that currently stands as the earliest written ...

Mystery over Viking treasure solved after runic inscription deciphered - Experts have theorised who owned the treasure which ...

Archaeologists have discovered some of the earliest-known stone fragments containing Germanic letter inscriptions at a grave ...

Along with the details found within Norwegian stave churches, rune stones provide some of the best evidence we have of the slow transition from belief in the old Norse Gods to the ‘new ...

Researchers from the University of Oslo found that the ancient fragments fit together ... been “separated intentionally”. The oldest runes were in use until about 700AD.

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what ...

The mysterious Rök stone, one of the world’s most famous runestones, was raised in the ninth Century in Sweden and contains the longest runic inscription ... alludes to a Viking fear very ...