In an Iron Age burial ground surrounded by towering pines, rock fragments from the past have surfaced, and the faintly ...

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 ...

Sweden, renowned for its wealth of Viking rune stones and rock carvings, boasts the world’s largest collection of these historic artifacts. These standing stones, dating back to between the 9th ...

"The development of runic writing and the practice of inscribing runes on stone are difficult to trace," study co-author Kristel Zilmer, a professor of runology at the University of Oslo ...