The Elder Futhark runes are an ancient Germanic script used from the 2nd to the 8th centuries, primarily by tribes in what is now Scandinavia and other parts of northern Europe. Each rune not only ...

Runes are ancient alphabets predating our modern written language. Combining and using runes for jewelry and tattoos have given these intriguing symbols use beyond divination. Getting a tattoo of ...

Some runes vaguely resemble letters in our own alphabet; others look more like symbols. All had meaning to the Vikings, who carved them into their so-called rune stones—large monuments that ...

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

The ancient monument was erected in the late 800s in the Swedish province of Östergötland. The multiple rune symbols inscribed all over its surface have never ceased to puzzle archaeologists and ...