The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed ... It’s believed Germanic people drew inspiration from the Roman alphabet to create the characters, according to the museum ...

shedding light on the varied pragmatic and ritual aspects of early Germanic rune stones. Runes were the letters used to write Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet ...

Experts believe the Roman alphabet may have inspired the Scandinavians ... a path back in time to the world’s oldest recorded rune stone — and it’s full of secrets. Archaeologists unearthed ...