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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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Runic inscriptions have been found on objects such as a bone knife and iron knife from Denmark and a comb, which archeologists have dated to around 150 A.D.

The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found. Now, scientists in Norway are ...

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 ...