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Brno archaeologists reveal early Slavs used Germanic runes prior to Glagolitic script

Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 12:10 p.m.

Archeologists at the Masaryk University in Brno have announced a groundbreaking discovery. The researchers have found a fragment of an inscribed bone which proves that the oldest writing system used by the ancient Slavs were Germanic runes, not the Glagolitic script as it was previously thought.