When Vikings sailed the North Sea in the 10th century, they recorded their exploits in runes, but that ancient alphabet is ...

Scotland Now Museums Ancient Viking crystal jar buried over 1,000 years ago to go on public display in Scotland The Viking hoard was buried in around AD 900 and contains extraordinary items ...

Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife Rune Nyord. Univ. of Chicago, $32.50 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-226-83825-0 ...

Deep in the northern Ontario bush, strange runes on a stone have perplexed archaeologists. The runes are Swedish in origin. Who made them, and why?