In the remote wilderness of Ontario, a small stone etched with strange symbols has sparked renewed debate among historians ...

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

The inscription measures roughly four by five feet. Within its chiseled border lie 255 runic symbols — characters from ...

In a January 2011 study, Imer suggested the earliest rune stones could be from the Late Roman Period, between AD 160 and 375, “because of stylistic evidence regarding the shape of the runes and ...

He realized the symbols were Futhark alphabet runes, which were originally used in Scandinavia. A confusing timeline. Etched into the bedrock is an early Swedish rune version of The Lord’s Prayer.

The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found.Now, scientists in Norway are ...