Runes were the building blocks of the first Germanic writing within the first few centuries AD and remained in use in Scandinavia until the late Middle Ages, according to the University of Oslo ...

Estimated to date between 50 BCE and 275 CE, this extraordinary find challenges what we thought we knew about the early ...

Runes represent an early Germanic writing system that was used before the adoption of the Latin alphabet, and was prevalent across Scandinavia and other parts of Northern Europe until the end of ...