When Vikings sailed the North Sea in the 10th century, they recorded their exploits in runes, but that ancient alphabet is ...

Archaeologists remain baffled by a surprising, seemingly ahistorical find located deep in the Canadian wilderness. But after ...

Seven years ago, a storm in the forests of northern Ontario uprooted a tree. What it revealed was no ordinary patch of ...

“Runestones with runes from the older futhark (the runic alphabet) are very rarely found in dateable, archaeological contexts and we understood that this had the potential to give us new ...

Another is that runes were born from the Latin alphabet, following commercial and cultural exchange between Germanic peoples and the Romans. There are at least three varieties of runic script, ...

Deep in the northern Ontario bush, strange runes on a stone have perplexed archaeologists. The runes are Swedish in origin.

A mysterious stone slab engraved with Nordic runes has been discovered deep in the Canadian wilderness, puzzling ...

Older runes have been found on other items, but not on stone. A rune stone discovered in Norway is being called the world’s oldest, bearing inscriptions that date back to the earliest known days ...

In the eighth century, the UU form was temporarily replaced by ƿ (wynn), a character from the runic alphabet used in Old English. For a while, wynn became the standard symbol for W.