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

But the religious text isn’t inscribed in French or English—it’s composed of over 250 symbols from the oldest known runic alphabet. The perplexing discovery happened completely by chance ...

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered what might be the oldest known rune stone, pushing back the origins of runic writing ...

In the eighth century, the UU form was temporarily replaced by ƿ (wynn), a character from the runic alphabet used in Old English. For a while, wynn became the standard symbol for W.

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

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the world's earliest known rune-stone, ... Their origin is debated but the oldest of the runic alphabets was in use until around A.D. 700.

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.