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

The earliest runestone ever to be reliably dated has been discovered at a grave field in Norway, providing some fascinating ...

Researchers pieced the stone together like a jigsaw puzzle from various fragments found at an ancient burial ground.

A team of researchers has found fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world in the Svingerud burial field, Norway. These ...

From an animal's tusk, it was worked into a small personal hygiene tool, inscribed with a modest wish, and eventually, ...

The next transformative step in language development was the invention of writing. Around 3100 BCE, humans began using ...

Towards the end of the 1970s, the Greek politician flirted with the idea of furthering Greece’s progress and European identity by introducing the Latin alphabet to the Greek language and making the ...

audience eager to demonstrate that Christian beliefs could flourish within the Roman empire. Both John and Matthew hint at the growing tensions between Jewish Christians and the Jewish religious ...

Highway workers found an ancient Roman cemetery, including a grave filled with a curious substance, during a recent highway construction project in England. The announcement was made last week by ...

The coins include depictions of nine Roman emperors who ruled between 364 ... because it is extremely rare to be able to study in its entirety an ancient monetary deposit in its archaeological ...

Ancient aqueducts and Renaissance sculptures ... who also worked on the Palazzo Borghese and several other Roman landmarks. However, the magnificent ship is an 18th-century replacement created ...