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

It’s not pronounced /wuh/, like the whispering sound the letter brings to words like whale and wonder. W’s name isn’t tied to its sound at all—it’s a historical nod to its origins. So how did this ...

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.

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

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 ...

Early Vikings used a complex runic system called a futhark.It gets its name from the sounds made by the first six of its 24 characters: f, u, th, a, r and k (not unlike how our own alphabet got ...

The thorn was from the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet, and it presented itself in English after the Anglo-Saxons invaded the British Isles. Here's where things may start to sound familiar.