The earliest rune stone that has ever been discovered, according to a group of archaeologists from Norway. It is believed that the little, brownish rock, which has been etched with cryptic writings, is about 2,000 years old and dates back to the time of Jesus. The Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, which broke the discovery first this week, stated in a press statement that the up to 2,000-year-old... 

The Swedish Government is trying to make certain runes from the runic alphabet, as well as some old Norse Scandinavian symbols illegal. Their official reason for banning the runes is that Nazis used some of them during the second world war, for example the Odal rune that means O and the Tyr/Tiwaz rune that means T. Reportedly, the Social Democratic Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson is behind the...