Kari Tauring's book explores the 16 "younger" runes, finding their evolved shapes, sounds, and meanings reflected cultural ...

Runes fell out of widespread use but did not disappear altogether, and in recent times the Vikings' enigmatic alphabet has had a resurgence at the hands of everyone from Nazis to New Agers.

It contains the first three letters of the runic alphabet – “f,” “u” and “th” – on one of its sides, according to the museum. The stone features "unexpected" inscriptions.

Way back when, "runes" were actually just an alphabet. The earliest runic alphabet is thought to be modelled after the Latin alphabet, and it most likely first appeared in southern Europe among ...

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.

Given that the Lany bone fragment contains six of the last letters of this script, Nedoma believes the original artifact may have comprised the entire alphabet at one point and could have been ...

The alphabet included 24 symbols, the last seven of which were scratched onto the broken bone. A graduate student spotted the runes inscribed on the surface of a seventh-century cow bone.