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World’s Oldest Runestone May Have Been Carved By A Woman
Runes represent an early Germanic writing system that was used before the adoption of the Latin alphabet, and was prevalent across Scandinavia and other parts of Northern Europe until the end of ...
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Archaeologists Reveal the Oldest Known “Rune Stone” in the World—Centuries Older Than the Vikings
Estimated to date between 50 BCE and 275 CE, this extraordinary find challenges what we thought we knew about the early Germanic alphabets and their evolution. Rune stones are engraved slabs ...