Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers excavating ancient graves in eastern Norway uncovered multiple fragments that, when fitted together, represent the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archeologists have found what they think is the oldest example of runes. The writing, which is about 2,000 years old, was found in ...

A team of researchers has found fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world in the Svingerud burial field, Norway. These pieces, which have been assembled like a puzzle, offer a unique insight ...

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 ...

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. Runes, the oldest form of writing in Scandinavia, are the ...

Piecing together fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone shows they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and may have been separated intentionally, shedding light on the varied pragmatic and ...

In the Middle Ages, the Roman alphabet and runes lived side by side. A new doctoral thesis challenges the notion that runes represent more of an oral and less of a learned form of written language.

The Vikings are often portrayed as illiterate, uncultured barbarians who evinced more interest in plunder than in poetry. In fact, the Vikings left behind a great number of documents in stone, wood ...

The world's oldest runestone may have been found in Norway, dating back more than 2,000 years. It is covered in primitive runic writing, and archaeologists believe it dates back to between AD 1 and AD ...

In the Middle Ages, the Roman alphabet and runes lived side by side. A new doctoral thesis challenges the notion that runes represent more of an oral and less of a learned form of written language.