The stone’s carvings don’t match the fully developed runic alphabets found on later artifacts. Instead, the engravings are a mix of recognizable runes and unknown symbols, hinting at an early ...

In fact, the Vikings left behind a great number of documents in stone, wood and metal, all written in the enigmatic symbols known as runes. They relied on these symbols not only for writing but ...

Now, researchers have traced a path back in time to the world’s oldest recorded rune stone — and it’s full of secrets. Archaeologists unearthed a large, carved stone in an ancient cremation ...