most wealthy") and the prosaic ("Rannvieg owns this box"), inscribing them on everything from great stone monuments to common household items. Learn your F-U-TH's The runic alphabet, or Futhark ...

Estimated to date between 50 BCE and 275 CE, this extraordinary find challenges what we thought we knew about the early Germanic alphabets and their evolution. Rune stones are engraved slabs ...

Experts believe the Roman alphabet may have inspired the Scandinavians ... a path back in time to the world’s oldest recorded rune stone — and it’s full of secrets. Archaeologists unearthed ...