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

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

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

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.

Archaeologists in Ontario have decoded a 200-year-old rock carving in Canadian wilderness, revealing the Lord’s Prayer in Swedish runes. Likely made by a Hudson’s Bay Company worker in the 1800s, the ...

One section of the artifact is carved with the first three characters of the runic alphabet. Eight runes on the front of the stone spell “idiberug” when converted into Roman letters.

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.

Archeologists in Norway have discovered the world’s oldest dated runestone, featuring runic inscriptions from up to 2,000 years ago. Researchers at the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural ...

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 ...