A survey of ancient artefacts with runic inscriptions has found many where the text seems to be gibberish, but detailed analysis reveals this is actually a form of encryption.
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People living in Scandinavia may have written encrypted messages in runes – the alphabet later used by the Vikings – several centuries earlier than previously thought. In runic writing systems, each rune can represent both a sound and a word. For example, in an early runic system called the Elder Futhark, the rune that corresponds to the letter S also means “sun”.Advertisement
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