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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Credit: Charlotte Nueva Finnebråten / Museum of Cultural History Over three seasons of meticulous excavations, archaeologists discovered the rune stone fragments in separate graves. After laboratory ...

which could hint at the largely unknown origins of runes The stones are actually broken off from the same slab of rock, even though they were in different graves, prompting questions as to what ...

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 ...

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