Now, researchers have traced a path back in time to the world’s oldest recorded rune stone — and it’s full of secrets. Archaeologists unearthed a large, carved stone in an ancient cremation ...

before ending with the word “rune,” researchers wrote earlier this month in the journal Antiquity after studying a fragment of the stone found at a grave site in Hole, a small municipality in ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered new details about the world's oldest known rune stone, first revealed in 2023. New research suggests that the nearly 2,000-year-old inscriptions were ...