Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written Germanic languages and who inscribed it.

Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

Fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world were found in an ancient Norwegian burial ground ... they compared to other runic writing from around the same time period. Solheim found that ...

Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable archaeological contexts” and provide “insight into early runic writing ...

The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age ... three of them are inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes with Old English name elements, officials said. These runes likely correspond with ...

identified as the world’s oldest rune stone, a study said. Photo from the Museum of Cultural History While archaeologists in Norway were excavating an ancient burial ground, they found ...