Now, the 23-year-old has managed to blend his two loves into a single garment that won this year’s Skin Innovation Awards, ...

When Vikings sailed the North Sea in the 10th century, they recorded their exploits in runes, but that ancient alphabet is ...

The stone tells a dramatic story about Scandinavian explorers in Minnesota. The translated message states: “8 Goths [Swedes] ...

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

The inscription measures roughly four by five feet. Within its chiseled border lie 255 runic symbols — characters from Futhark, the oldest known runic alphabet used by Germanic peoples, particularly ...

Deep in the northern Ontario bush, strange runes on a stone have perplexed archaeologists. The runes are Swedish in origin. Who made them, and why?

Archaeologists in Ontario have decoded a 200-year-old rock carving in Canadian wilderness, revealing the Lord’s Prayer in Swedish runes. Likely made by a Hudson’s Bay Company worker in the 1800s, the ...

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 ...

Seven years after it was discovered in the northern Ontario bush near the town of Wawa, a carving in the bedrock remains an ...

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

Runes are the letters of an alphabetic script used to write Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. Their origin is debated but the oldest of the runic alphabets was in use ...