The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found. Now, scientists in Norway are working to ...

Norway revealed a ‘dream stone of all runologists’ providing clues to origins of Western writing. The stone is named after the excavation site and is now being called the Svingerud Stone. Svingerud ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the world's earliest known rune-stone, a study reports. Runes are the letters of an alphabetic script used to write Germanic languages before the adoption of ...

Fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world were found in an ancient Norwegian burial ground Inscriptions on the stones were determined to be the earliest known form of runic writing, which could ...

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