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] ...

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 remain baffled by a surprising, seemingly ahistorical find located deep in the Canadian wilderness. But after years of research, analysis, and historical corroboration, an ...

Welcome to šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street: Vancouver's newest street is its first with an official name rendered in alphabet other than English.

The runic alphabet eventually evolved to reflect the transition from the Proto-Norse language to Old Norse in the 8th century, and it was used up until the 14th century, when Christianity — and by ...

A mysterious graphic feature runes was shown on "WWE Raw," suggesting the return of a tag team who have been on the shelf for an extended period of time.

Runes There were 24 runes in the alphabet, and they were loosely based on Latin letters. But runes are very angular and feel stiff to the human eye that has been trained to read English or Spanish.

But runes are very angular and feel stiff to the human eye that has been trained to read English or Spanish. Runes went out of style in England about a thousand years ago, and elsewhere, the runic ...

Archaeologists in Denmark have discovered runic letters inscribed on a knife blade dating back nearly 2,000 years, making them some of the oldest runes ever found in the country.