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

Scientists Say a Massive Volcanic Eruption 4900 Years Ago May Have Trigged Strange Sacrifices of ‘Sun Stones' Archaeologists and climate scientists from the University of Copenhagen provided evidence ...

In a study published Thursday (Jan. 16) in the journal Antiquity, Iversen and colleagues detailed the discovery of 614 stone plaques and plaque fragments on the Danish island of Bornholm ...

Climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Bornholm analyzed ice cores from Greenland’s ice sheets and demonstrated that a major volcanic eruption ...

On the island of Bornholm, archaeologists uncovered 614 plaques and plaque fragments between 2013 and 2018 that were decorated with patterns and sun motifs, according to a Jan. 16 study published in ...

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Archaeologists discovered these enigmatic ancient stones on the island of Bornholm, 150 km south-east of Copenhagen, and have now used environmental data to link the timing of their burial with ...

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic people on Bornholm, Denmark, sacrificed stones with sun motifs, coinciding with a volcanic eruption that obscured the sun in Northern Europe.

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it because a volcanic eruption covered the sky ...

On the Danish island of Bornholm, small carved pieces from nearly 5,000 years ago may have been volcano-induced sacrifices, experts say. Artem Shuba via Unsplash Nearly 5,000 years ago ...