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 ...

Researchers pieced the stone together like a jigsaw puzzle from various fragments found at an ancient burial ground.

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

Archaeologists have made pre-Viking Norse language discovery atgrave site containing pieces of stone inscribed with Germanic ...

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

Archaeologists in Hole, Norway, unearthed 12 fragments of a carved standing stone, identified as the world’s oldest rune stone, a study said. Photo from the Museum of Cultural History While ...

The development of runic writing and the practice of inscribing runes on stones are difficult to trace, particularly because rune-stone inscriptions are rarely found in original and/or datable ...