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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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