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 working to ...

A rune stone discovered in Norway is being called the world’s oldest, bearing inscriptions that date back to the earliest known days of runic writing. Sometime 1,800 to 2,000 years ago, someone who ...

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 ...

Can the stone speak? If so, what does it tell us? Work began last Thursday on an attempt to translate the markings on the stone discovered in November, 1982 on Calico Mountain in the Mount Magazine ...

It was not necessary to be literate to be able to access rune carvings in the 11th century. At the same time, those who could read were able to glean much more information from a rune stone than ...

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Norway revealed a ‘dream stone of all runologists’ providing clues to origins of Western writing. The stone is named after the excavation site and is now being called the Svingerud Stone. Svingerud ...