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 ...

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

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

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

Scientists Say a Massive Volcanic Eruption 4900 Years Ago May Have Trigged Strange Sacrifices of ‘Sun Stones' Archaeologists ...

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

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

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

The Danish Energy Agency has allowed the operator of Nord Stream 2, Nord Stream 2, to preserve the pipeline line affected by ...

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 ...

Between 2013 and 2018, archaeologists excavating the site of Vasagård West on the Danish island of Bornholm discovered a ...