Like many important discoveries, it happened by accident. Alena Slamova, a Czech graduate student in archaeology, was routinely washing some animal bones that had been recovered from a dig in an early ...

Runes are the characters of the alphabet used by the Vikings and other Germanic peoples from about the second to the 15th centuries A.D. Some runes vaguely resemble letters in our own alphabet; others ...

Outraged social media users condemned the Conservative Political Action Conference organizers this weekend for what they speculated was a nod to Nazi pagan ideology and modern white supremacy, drawing ...

Perhaps no one has ever been as excited to see a comb as Danish archaeologist Søren Sindbæk. He and a team of archaeologists from Aarhus University recently unearthed one at a historic Viking town ...

Sweden may be soon coming to a place regarding its rich and complex history that will seem all-too familiar to too many Americans. Seems the Swedes are considering banning certain symbols from their ...

Melissa D'costa finds out more about the stones, which have been carved with an ancient and sacred Germanic alphabet, for divination Melissa D'costa finds out more about the stones, which have been ...