Main building of the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, photographed in May 2014. On Jan. 17, museum officials announced the discovery of the oldest known runestone, which has been dubbed the Svingerud stone. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Vassia Atanassova, aka Spiritia. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution- Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Archaeologists in Norway said Jan. 17 that they have found a runestone which they claim is the world’s oldest, saying the inscriptions are up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the enigmatic history of runic writing.
