The Oldest Known Rune Stone Fragments Found in Burial Sites, Hints at Germanic Ritual Practices Archaeologists discovered ...

Archaeologists have discovered some of the earliest-known stone fragments containing Germanic letter inscriptions at a grave ...

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 have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what ...

This may be one of the first attempts to use runes in Norway and Scandinavia on stone.” Some symbols on the stone suggest a transition from decorative carvings to a more structured communication ...

Languages: English, Spanish 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 ...

New fragments of the stone discovered in another tomb. Credit: Kristel Zilmer This finding raises new questions about the nature of runic writing in its earliest stages. Some of the identified symbols ...

"It would have been impossible for anyone in the Middle Ages to reproduce the language and grammatical forms on the Jelling stone so accurately. Even with some familiarity with runic forms and ...

The Stone of Madness may be set in the 18th century, a full 350 years on from Umberto Eco's masterful monastic mystery The Name of the Rose, yet the game is clearly indebted to the literary ...