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

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

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

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

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

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

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what ...

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

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 discovered some of the earliest-known stone fragments containing Germanic letter inscriptions at a grave ...

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 ...

features inscriptions in a runic script (runes were used in Northern Europe before the adoption of the Latin alphabet). Traces of the sword's leather and wood scabbard, lined with beaver fur ...