Side view of the blade of an 1,800-year-old iron knife with Danish runes that seem to spell out the word "hirila.". Archaeologists in Denmark have discovered runic letters inscribed on a knife blade ...

Deep in the northern Ontario bush, there is a stone covered in strange markings. No one knew it existed until a tree fell over and exposed it. Carved into the slab of rock are a series of ancient ...

When Lene Brandt and her husband, Anders Nielsen, were preparing to tear up the linoleum floors in the kitchen in their home in the village of Mosekær, in Denmark, they probably expected the normal ...

DENVER -- I've always been impressed by the ability of Hermione Granger, close friend of fictional wizard Harry Potter, to read ancient runes. She would be much in demand at "Vikings: Beyond the ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN — The mysterious rune stone that disappeared from the shores of Pojac Point, strangely resurfaced and has been concealed under lock and key, now adds another chapter to its odd tale.

We all know which star sign we were born under. With its 12 signs of the zodiac, conventional astrology has long dominated our reading of the heavens above. But what if other cultures had different ...

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“In modern branding, runes are not so hip,” says Perniclas Bedow, founder of an eponymous graphic design firm based in Sweden. But that didn’t stop Bedow from looking to this ancient alphabet for ...