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 Norway said Tuesday that have found a runestone which they claim is the world’s oldest, saying the inscriptions are up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the ...

A new interpretation of the runic inscription on the Forsa Ring (Forsaringen in Swedish), provides fresh insights into the Viking Age monetary system and represents the oldest documented value record ...

A runestone is a large stone carved with runic inscriptions — usually in the early Germanic alphabet known as the futhark. These were typically erected across Scandinavia during the Iron and Viking ...

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 “I” in ...

Archaeologists in Norway said Tuesday that have found a runestone which they claim is the world’s oldest, saying the inscriptions are up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the ...

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 ...

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Archaeologists in Norway said Jan. 17 that they have found a runestone which they claim is the world’s oldest, saying the inscriptions are up to 2,000 years old and date back to ...