Estimated to date between 50 BCE and 275 CE, this extraordinary find challenges what we thought we knew about the early Germanic alphabets and their evolution. Rune stones are engraved slabs ...

Early Germanic tribes of northern Europe were first to develop runes, but the Scandinavians soon adopted the symbols for their own use. When the seafaring Vikings traveled to faraway lands ...

A runestone is a large stone carved with runic inscriptions — usually in the early Germanic alphabet known as the futhark.