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

Seven years ago, a storm in the forests of northern Ontario uprooted a tree. What it revealed was no ordinary patch of ...

Deep in the northern Ontario bush, strange runes on a stone have perplexed archaeologists. The runes are Swedish in origin.

The runic alphabet, or Futhark, gets its name from its first six sounds (f, u, th, a, r, k), much like the word 'alphabet' derives from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta.

Write Your Name in Runes. By Nicole Sanderson; Posted 04.28.11; NOVA; Runes are the characters of the alphabet used by the Vikings and other Germanic peoples from about the second to the 15th ...

The stone could offer clues into when the runic alphabet was developed. It's thought Scandinavians learned how to write after meeting ancient Romans.

Archeologists in Norway have discovered the world’s oldest dated runestone, featuring runic inscriptions from up to 2,000 years ago. Researchers at the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural ...

The Swedish runic calendar or almanac is a medieval invention, based on the nineteen year long metonic cycle of the moon. The runic calendars had a revival in the eighteenth century, as seen here in ...

One section of the artifact is carved with the first three characters of the runic alphabet. Eight runes on the front of the stone spell “idiberug” when converted into Roman letters.