Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

While archaeologists in Norway were excavating an ancient burial ground ... which they identified as the world’s oldest known rune stone. But that turned out to be just the first piece of ...

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 ...