The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people ...

Finding out later it was an ogham stone and over 1,600 years old was incredible ... Ogham has some similarities to Norse runes, which also consist of straight lines. But ogham uses only parallel ...

MORE ARCHAEOLOGY BREAKTHROUGHS: ・Archaeology breakthrough as 3,500-year-old royal retreat discovered in Egypt "Rune stones likely had both ceremonial and practical intentions," Dr Zilmer explained.