Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis.

The sun stones correspond with the decline of the so-called Funnel Beaker tradition in European Neolithic culture, or the era ...

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately ...

Volcanic eruptions were cataclysmic in centuries past, from the 43 B.C. eruption of a volcano in Alaska that caused failed ...

Thousands of years ago, people on what is now the Danish island of Bornholm threw hundreds of mysteriously carved stones into ...

A "completely unique" collection of prehistoric stone artifacts have been linked to a "devastating" volcanic eruption.

About 4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and ...

"The Public Prosecutor in Copenhagen has brought the first case of violation of section 110e (2) of the Danish Criminal Code ...

Learn more about the sun stones, shale artifacts that were sacrificed at the Neolithic site of Vasagård after a volcanic ...

Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual sacrifices ...