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 ...

Norway, and finished work in 2023. The site included four grave mounds and a pair of “flat graves,” all mostly filled with “typical” artifacts — except for one red stone. A photo shows ...

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 ...

This may be one of the first attempts to use runes in Norway and Scandinavia on stone,” Kristel Zilmer, a professor at the University of Oslo, of which the museum is part, told The Associated Press.

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 ...