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 symbols can be traced back to Futhark, the oldest known runic alphabet. Archaeologists remain baffled by a surprising, seemingly ahistorical find located deep in the Canadian wilderness. But ...

Early Vikings used a complex runic system called a futhark.It gets its name from the sounds made by the first six of its 24 characters: f, u, th, a, r and k (not unlike how our own alphabet got ...

Similarly, the runic alphabet is known as the 'futhark', from the first six runes. The original futhark had 24 runes, later reduced to 16.

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 ...

Why Archaeologists Are Excited About a Viking Comb. It's a 1,000-year-old comb simply inscribed with the word "comb," but it may hold clues to the origins of the Viking Age.

Runes Found on Seventh-Century Cow Bone Could Change Slavic History The Germanic writing suggests Slavs used an alphabet more than 200 years earlier than previously believed ...

Older runes have been found on other items, but not on stone. A rune stone discovered in Norway is being called the world’s oldest, bearing inscriptions that date back to the earliest known days ...

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 ...