Early Germanic tribes of northern Europe were ... Learn your F-U-TH's The runic alphabet, or Futhark, gets its name from its first six sounds (f, u, th, a, r, k), much like the word 'alphabet ...

Estimated to date between 50 BCE and 275 CE, this extraordinary find challenges what we thought we knew about the early ...

It’s believed Germanic people drew inspiration from the Roman alphabet to create the characters, according to the museum, but the exact origins of runes and how they were used has remained murky.

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters ... The oldest runes were in use until about 700AD. How these letters originated ...