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] ...

The hand book of mediaeval alphabets and devices by Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873 Publication date 1856 Topics Alphabets, Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens, reproductions, etc Publisher ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grammatography : a manual of reference to the alphabets of ancient and modern languages by Ballhorn, Friedrich, 1803-1876 Publication date 1861 Topics Alphabet Publisher London : Trübner and co.

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 ...