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 ...

The inscription measures roughly four by five feet. Within its chiseled border lie 255 runic symbols — characters from ...

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

That is, until the Norman Conquest in 1066. Barrett explains: “The French and the rest of southern Europe didn’t use those runic letters; they belonged to alphabets from the north.

He realized the symbols were Futhark alphabet runes, which were originally used in Scandinavia. A confusing timeline Etched into the bedrock is an early Swedish rune version of The Lord’s Prayer.

Seven years after it was discovered in the northern Ontario bush near the town of Wawa, a carving in the bedrock remains an ...

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