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

The study of runes goes beyond just an ancient writing system; they represent an ancestral legacy full of wisdom and mystical ...

Runes represent an early Germanic writing system that was used ... However, while the Vikings used a runic alphabet called younger futhark, earlier examples that predate the emergence of this ...

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

A team of researchers from the University of Oslo uncovered fragments of runestones older than 2,000 years at the ancient ...

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

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

While the origins of runic writing are shrouded in mystery, its earliest form is known as the older futhark, which matches the runes carved on the Hole rock specimens. Radiocarbon dating of ...

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters ... The oldest runes were in use until about 700AD. How these letters originated ...