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

Seven years ago, a storm in the forests of northern Ontario uprooted a tree. What it revealed was no ordinary patch of ...

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

The stone could offer clues into when the runic alphabet was developed. It's thought Scandinavians learned how to write after meeting ancient Romans.

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 ...

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.

Through trading with the Romans, Scandinavians learned about the Roman alphabet, which led to the creation of the runic alphabet.

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.