“God of War’s” special edition steelcase has a hidden message on its reverse cover, decipherable only by those able to read the oldest of the runic alphabets. “This is the story of a bear and a wolf, ...

Perhaps no one has ever been as excited to see a comb as Danish archaeologist Søren Sindbæk. He and a team of archaeologists from Aarhus University recently unearthed one at a historic Viking town ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 6 -- Norse runes found on a rock near Kensington, Minn., apparently were the work of University of Minnesota graduate students, not Norse explorers in 1363. Two of the ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by our partner, ScienceNordic. The original is here. Why did Vikings sometimes use codes when they wrote in runes? Were the messages secret, or did they have ...

Learn about the Svingerud Stone, a runestone found in a Norwegian grave site that currently stands as the earliest written depiction of the Proto-Norse language. The enigmatic origins of runic ...

Side view of the blade of an 1,800-year-old iron knife with Danish runes that seem to spell out the word "hirila.". Archaeologists in Denmark have discovered runic letters inscribed on a knife blade ...

Before candy hearts, there were Valentine etchings. Case in point: a romantic message carved into a piece of bone more than 900 years ago in Sweden. “Kiss me,” it says. The markings had stumped ...