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

Archaeologists in Ontario have decoded a 200-year-old rock carving in Canadian wilderness, revealing the Lord’s Prayer in Swedish runes. Likely made by a Hudson’s Bay Company worker in the 1800s, the ...

Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in Ontario. Now, ...

A mysterious stone slab engraved with Nordic runes has been discovered deep in the Canadian wilderness, puzzling ...

There are also letters partly written in runes. Their content varies, from simple everyday phrases to religious hymns and official documents. Henrik Bruun Williams, a professor of Nordic philology at ...

Seven years after it was discovered in the northern Ontario bush near the town of Wawa, a carving in the bedrock remains an ...

A separate sequence has characters that resemble the first three runes of the futhark, the early Germanic alphabetical system that was used to write Proto-Norse (the first three runes correspond to ...

Arm bands found in a Viking-age hoard first discovered in Scotland in 2014 had runes that weren’t deciphered for a decade until now ...

Strange carvings at Norwegian grave site reveal what language was like before Vikings. Stone fragments inscribed with runes found in separate graves ‘fit together like jigsaw puzzle’ ...