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Mejlbystenen

sveskemus — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:17:05 -0800

An inanimate object comes to life: The interactive staging of the thousand year old runic stone Mejlbystenen. You can download a higher quality version of the movie here.

Rongorongo!

Ogre Lawless — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:04:17 -0800

Rongorongo! Say it twice -- don't it feel nice? Most people think of the enigmatic maoi when they think of Easter Island but an equally vexing mystery is found in twenty-six wooden objects which contain pictographic symbols comprising...what? A language? A mnemomic system for recording stories now long forgotten? A resource for modern primitives' tribal tatoos? We could ask, but the authors are long-gone -- the victims of hard times -- leaving only a few tablets and a bunch of carved stone to puzzle over.

lagado — Tue, 12 Dec 2000 03:31:53 -0800

The Kensington Runestone. In 1898 a farmer in Minnesota named Olaf Ohmann, dug up from his property a stone covered in runes (viking enscriptions). When it was deciphered it read:

8 Goths (Swedes) and 22 Norwegians on a voyage of discovery from Vinland (of) the West...

Read more inside.