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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the world's earliest known rune-stone, a study reports. Runes are the letters of an alphabetic script used to write Germanic languages before the adoption of ...

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered what might be the oldest known rune stone, pushing back the origins of runic writing further than ever imagined. Estimated to date between 50 BCE and 275 CE, ...

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 ...

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NORTH KINGSTOWN – The Narragansett Rune Stone is no longer covered by water, but it's still shrouded in mystery. Removed from the water off North Kingstown, the 2½-ton stone now sits amid a bunch of ...

Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in Ontario. Now, revealing the stone’s existence, they’re asking the public for help. By Alan Yuhas ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Early Scandinavians began trading goods with the Roman army ...

(CNN) — More than 1,000 years ago, carvers in what is now Denmark set their chisels to rock to etch runestones — monuments to Viking leaders naming their deeds and achievements. Two groups of ...

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