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 ...

Now, researchers have traced a path back in time to the world’s oldest recorded rune stone — and it’s full ... into a lost ancient Egyptian royal tomb — once located beneath two waterfalls ...

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 ...

Their attention settled on one reddish slab, which they identified as the world’s oldest known rune stone. But that turned out to be just the first piece of a puzzle. Archaeologists spent three ...