A silver armband discovered in a surprisingly large hoard buried in Scotland reveal more about ancient this ancient era.

In fact, the Vikings left behind a great number of documents in stone, wood and metal, all written in the enigmatic symbols known as runes. They relied on these symbols not only for writing but ...

As well as remembering big battles in their stories, the sagas were used to record family history ... Image caption, Viking runes were scratched on to the walls at the Maeshowe neolithic burial ...

(photo credit: National Museums Scotland is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0) Researchers recently deciphered runic inscriptions ... notions that wealth during the Viking Age was primarily held by ...

Numerous stones carved with runes found across Scandinavia bear fascinating messages, such as one about a powerful Viking queen or a warning for frigid climate change based on past events.