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

A team of researchers from the University of Oslo has discovered fragments of rune stones over 2000 years old in an ancient ...

A grave site containing pieces of stone inscribed with early Germanic letters ... 50BC and 275AD. Runes, some of the earliest of which were found on the stone fragments at this site, were used in ...

Photos from Kristel Zilmer, shared by the Museum of Cultural History In general, the team found it hard to tell early rune writing from other decorative, non-writing markings because such early ...

Researchers pieced the stone together like a jigsaw puzzle from various fragments found at an ancient burial ground.

Runes are the letters of an alphabetic script used to write Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. The older runic alphabets, such as Elder Futhark, were in use until around ...

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what the Norse language was like before the Viking era.

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters ... The oldest runes were in use until about 700AD. How these letters originated ...

The runic alphabet was a common writing system primarily for Germanic languages until around 700 AD. Despite their historical importance, the origins and evolution of these symbols remain largely ...