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

In an Iron Age burial ground surrounded by towering pines, rock fragments from the past have surfaced, and the faintly ...

Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable ...

"The development of runic writing and the practice of inscribing runes on stone are difficult to trace," study co-author Kristel Zilmer, a professor of runology at the University of Oslo ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone, found at Svingerud, Norway, fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, suggesting intentional separation. These ...

Fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world were found in an ancient Norwegian burial ground Inscriptions on the stones were determined to be the earliest known form of runic writing ...

Archaeologists in Hole, Norway, unearthed 12 fragments of a carved standing stone, identified as the world’s oldest rune stone, a study said. Photo from the Museum of Cultural History While ...

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered fragments of the world’s oldest rune stone in Svingerud burial field, dating back to 50 BC–275 AD.