Archaeologists remain baffled by a surprising, seemingly ahistorical find located deep in the Canadian wilderness. But after years of research, analysis, and historical corroboration, an ...

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

A runestone is a large stone carved with runic inscriptions — usually in the early Germanic alphabet known as the futhark.

“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 ...

It's not clear when the runic alphabet — called the futhark, because the first six runes are "f u th a r k" — first came to be, per the press release.

He sometimes wrote in runes -- an ancient Scandinavian language that differs from the English alphabet. But Larsson's runes were not the usual runes used over the centuries.

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 ...

Archaeologist Jakob Bonde holds knife blade with runic inscription | photo Museum Odense. The knife’s runes are written in the oldest runic alphabet known, making the new find a crucial part of ...

Norwegian archaeologists believe they have found the world's oldest runestone inscribed almost 2,000 years ago, making it several hundred centuries older than previous discoveries, they announced ...

The discovery, which could date from the time of Jesus Christ, is "a dream for runologists", who study ancient runic alphabets, inscriptions and their history, the museum in Oslo said.