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

Strange carvings at Norwegian grave site reveal what language was like before Vikings - Stone fragments inscribed with runes ...

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

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

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 ...