In an Iron Age burial ground surrounded by towering pines, rock fragments from the past have surfaced, and the faintly ...

The Oldest Known Rune Stone Fragments Found in Burial Sites, Hints at Germanic Ritual Practices Archaeologists discovered ...

The fragments, found in separate graves, were dated to between 50BC and 275AD, providing the earliest known context for rune writings. The carvings, an “unusual mixture of runes and other ...

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

Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable ...

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.

The site included four grave mounds and a pair of “flat graves,” all mostly filled with ... archaeologists soon labeled it the world’s oldest known rune stone. A photo and diagram show ...