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

The earliest runestone ever to be reliably dated has been discovered at a grave field in Norway, providing some fascinating insights into the origins of runic writing. Engraved some time between 50 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...