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 ...

“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, ...

Runes are thought to have developed after a first contact with ancient Romans. It's not clear when the runic alphabet — called the futhark, ...

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.

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered what might be the oldest known rune stone, pushing back the origins of runic writing ...

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

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

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

The runic alphabet eventually evolved to reflect the transition from the Proto-Norse language to Old Norse in the 8th century, and it was used up until the 14th century, when Christianity — and by ...