The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age ... unearths ancient gold item — and stuns experts in Germany. See it This meant the general translation of the rune was not a single ...

Most rune-stones are Viking Age memorials ... It’s also probably the oldest runestone we know of. Dating ancient stones is notoriously difficult. Scholars often rely on linguistic analysis ...

The ancient runes of an inscribed silver armband found in a buried Viking treasure hoard in Scotland are helping to reveal ...