Older runes have been found on other items, but not on stone. A rune stone discovered in Norway is being called the world’s oldest, bearing inscriptions that date back to the earliest known days ...

The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found.Now, scientists in Norway are ...

The inscription measures roughly four by five feet. Within its chiseled border lie 255 runic symbols — characters from Futhark, the oldest known runic alphabet used by Germanic peoples, particularly ...

Archeologists in Norway have discovered the world’s oldest dated runestone, featuring runic inscriptions from up to 2,000 years ago. Researchers at the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural ...

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered what might be the oldest known rune stone, pushing back the origins of runic writing ...

“This may be one of the first attempts to use runes in Norway and Scandinavia on stone,” Kristel Zilmer, a scholar of written culture and iconography at the University of Oslo, tells the ...

A woman may have signed her name on the world's oldest dated runestone, researchers in Norway have found, as they piece together the 2,000-year-old puzzle.. The inscription begins with the word ...

A 2,000-year-old rune stone found in Norway could be the oldest ever, and give a glimpse into ancient writing systems By Marianne Guenot ...

Strange carvings at Norwegian grave site reveal what language was like before Vikings. Stone fragments inscribed with runes found in separate graves ‘fit together like jigsaw puzzle’ ...

The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found.Now, scientists in Norway are ...