In October, Professor Judith Jesch of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for the Study of the Viking Age led a group of 20 runologists from Scandinavia, Britain and Germany to study Orkney’s ...

In October, Professor Judith Jesch of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for the Study of the Viking Age led a group of 20 ...

Runic script was developed in Scandinavia between the 2nd and 8th centuries AD. It was originally used for short inscriptions. After the Viking Age, this famous form of writing was altered to compete ...

AMERICA: 1355-1364 (272 pp.)—Hjalmar R. Holand—Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($4). U.S. soil is not so rich as Europe’s in buried clues to the great treasure hunt of history, but it has had its moments. In ...

New discoveries challenge old ideas about the earliest alphabets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With so many ancient texts ...

Days and nights pass and the blood remains the same. WARNING: the rest of the text may contain minor plot spoilers. Fans, on the other hand, point out that one cannot escape fate. A theory has been ...

A cryptic video on Monday's episode of "WWE Raw" may be alluding to the return of a popular tag team that has been on the shelf for quite some time. During the broadcast, a video vignette was shown of ...

The ancient runic alphabet, used by Germanic peoples centuries ago prior to the adoption of the Latin alphabet, remains one of the most enigmatic early writing systems. Chief among its mysteries is ...

People living in Scandinavia may have written encrypted messages in runes – the alphabet later used by the Vikings – several centuries earlier than previously thought. In runic writing systems, each ...