Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable archaeological contexts” and provide “insight into early runic writing ...

Archaeologists have made pre-Viking Norse language discovery atgrave site containing pieces of stone inscribed with Germanic ...

Researchers pieced the stone together like a jigsaw puzzle from various fragments found at an ancient burial ground.

A team of researchers from the University of Oslo uncovered fragments of runestones older than 2,000 years at the ancient ...

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered fragments of the world’s oldest rune stone in Svingerud burial field, dating back to 50 BC–275 AD.

Learn about the Svingerud Stone, a runestone found in a Norwegian grave site that currently stands as the earliest written ...

The earliest runestone ever to be reliably dated has been discovered at a grave field in Norway, providing some fascinating ...

A team of researchers has found fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world in the Svingerud burial field, Norway. These ...

Piecing together fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone shows they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and may have ...

Stephanie Mistre, 51, holds a picture of her daughter, Marie Le Tiec, a teenager who died by suicide in 2021, on Dec. 10, 2024, in Cassis, southern France. (AP Photo/Tom Nouvian) ...

the world’s oldest runic alphabet. Taken to an extreme, it could almost be studied like an ancient text. The intrigue – and the level of commitment to maintaining it – was an obvious point ...