A Silent Witness to Ancient Words. Rune stones are engraved slabs bearing inscriptions in the runic alphabet, used by ...

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

The ancient runic alphabet, used by Germanic peoples centuries ago prior to the adoption of the Latin alphabet, remains one of the most enigmatic early writing systems. Chief among its mysteries is ...

The runic alphabet, or Futhark, gets its name from its first six sounds (f, u, th, a, r, k), much like the word 'alphabet' derives from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta.

In addition to communicating language, some runes also had a mythological connection, being linked with deities in Germanic paganism. The runic alphabet eventually evolved to reflect the transition ...

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

It’s believed Germanic people drew inspiration from the Roman alphabet to create the characters, according to the museum, but the exact origins of runes and how they were used has remained murky.

During the fall of 2021, archaeologists excavating a grave in eastern Norway unearthed a block of red-tinged sandstone etched with spidery runes, an ancient system of writing used by Germanic ...

In German, W is simply called veh, and pronounced like an English V. Most European languages that use the Latin source alphabet, Barrett notes, “have the W only because they borrowed English ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the world's earliest known rune-stone, a study reports. Runes are the letters of an alphabetic script used to write Germanic languages before the ...