Denmark’s oldest writing found on 2,000-year-old knife

Archaeologists in Denmark have found a small knife inscribed with runic letters dating back almost 2,000 years, the oldest trace of writing found in the country, the Museum Odense said on Tuesday. Runic letters, called runes, are the oldest alphabet known in Scandinavia. They were in use from the first or second century AD in […]

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