ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - After a steady stream of recent books and documentaries supporting the authenticity of the Kensington Runestone, a new book calls the famous stone a fake. Paul Stewart, an ...

Per press release, “Were Norsemen the first Europeans to explore the Minnesota-Great Lakes and surrounding area more than a century before Christopher Columbus? Some scholars and fervent theorists ...

Many Scandinavian-Americans hold it as an article of faith, or at least reason enough to ignore Columbus Day: A rock plucked from roots of a tree in Minnesota in 1898 proves the Vikings were here ...

Geologist Scott Wolter wants you to forget 1492. While you're at it, forget the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. Forget all of it. Forget Christopher Columbus because he wasn't the first European ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - The controversial Kensington Runestone, purported as evidence of early Norse exploration into Minnesota, has been unearthed in the literary society once again in "La Merica: The ...

For more than a century, many authorities have generally argued against the authenticity of the Kensington Runestone. A Swedish immigrant farmer Olof Ohman discovered the famed runestone in 1898 in a ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Many Scandinavian-Americans hold it as an article of faith, or at least reason enough to ignore Columbus Day: A rock plucked from the roots of a tree in Minnesota in 1898 proves ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- It's often called a "Minnesota Mystery." Throughout the years much has been made about the mystique behind the Kensington Runestone. Does it really date back to the 14th century, ...

KENSINGTON, Minn. (AP) -- The descendants of the Swedish farmer who claimed to have found the Kensington Runestone in 1898 have broken their silence to say Olof Ohman wasn't the sort of man who would ...

In 1898, a Swedish farmer in the Alexandria area unearthed a stone tablet with an inscription — written in a mix of Swedish, Norwegian and English, in runic letters — describing the arrival upon the ...