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 ...

This overlooks the fact that the order of characters is the most consistent component in borrowed alphabets. Both the Celtic Ogham and the Germanic Futhark have unique sequences for which no ...

While weeding his garden, a man in England stumbled across a stone inscribed with a 1,600-year-old message written in a rare Irish alphabet. Its discovery was quite a surprise, especially since ...

A look at the theories of the origins of Ogham, how the ancient Irish alphabet works, and the work that's occurring to preserve it.

Investigations show the stone is inscribed with a message in ogham, an Irish alphabet used from the fourth century A.D.

The Swedish runic calendar or almanac is a medieval invention, based on the nineteen year long metonic cycle of the moon. The runic calendars had a revival in the eighteenth century, as seen here in ...

The earliest runic alphabet is thought to be modelled after the Latin alphabet, and it most likely first appeared in southern Europe among Germanic tribes.

Discover the curious history behind this wacky and wonderful letter of the alphabet. Here's the real reason "W" is called "double U." ...

It's a 1,000-year-old comb simply inscribed with the word "comb," but it may hold clues to the origins of the Viking Age.