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 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 ...
A team of researchers from the University of Oslo uncovered fragments of runestones older than 2,000 years at the ancient cemetery in Svingerud, Norway. Dated between 50 BCE and 275 CE, the find ...
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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