Best form of early writing   stance: cunieform:
Runes were discovered magicaly after Odin hung from Ygdrassil the world tree for 9 days, in his agony and delirium he saw visions of runes on the ground below him him. Runes were originally symbols with magical properties and later they evolved into a kind of writing system
The Iranian writing system of today(not sure what its actual name is), the characters look incredible and I think that that writing system is the most beautiful modern writing system to look at