Archeologists have found what they think is the oldest example of runes. The writing, which is about 2,000 years old, was found in Norway. Scandinavians likely developed Runic writing after first ...

A rune stone discovered in Norway is being called the world’s oldest, bearing inscriptions that date back to the earliest known days of runic writing. Sometime 1,800 to 2,000 years ago, someone who ...

Runic markings on a large piece of the world's oldest known rune stone may bear a woman's name, according to researchers. - George Alexis Pantos/Kristel Zilmer Editor’s note: A version of this story ...

Archeologists in Norway have discovered the world’s oldest dated runestone, featuring runic inscriptions from up to 2,000 years ago. Researchers at the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History ...

The 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of runic writing Archaeologists in Norway have found what they claim is the world’s oldest runestone, saying the inscriptions are up to ...

A team of researchers has found fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world in the Svingerud burial field, Norway. These pieces, which have been assembled like a puzzle, offer a unique insight ...

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A stone tool used to sharpen Vikings' blades has been found engraved with rare runes. Experts believe mysterious symbols on a chunk of slate are evidence of an practice attempt to carve a name or ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...