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

Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable archaeological contexts” and provide “insight into early runic writing ...

The news spread worldwide when the nearly 2,000-year-old Hole runestone was discovered. New findings may change parts of our ...

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

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 ...