A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

In an Iron Age burial ground surrounded by towering pines, rock fragments from the past have surfaced, and the faintly ...

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But what is up for debate, is which pub is the country's oldest. We have plenty of venues which opened their doors back in the 1800s, however there's a handful which lay claim to the official ...

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered fragments of the world’s oldest rune stone in Svingerud burial field, dating back to 50 BC–275 AD.

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

Are these ancient symbols complete words, part of words, or part of sentences? The solution will earn the successful ...