ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- Fans of the Kensington Runestone may be tickled to learn that this century-old mystery will be featured in a Science Channel series called “America’s Lost Vikings.” The show’s six ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- The mystery of the Kensington Runestone is about to get a whole lot bigger. Images of the controversial stone, which is either one of the most important historical artifacts in ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - The Kensington Runestone is once again in the limelight. This time, as part of a documentary set to air on The History Channel this fall. Andy and Maria Awes with Committee Films, ...

The year was 1898. It was fall, and it was time to clear land for the spring planting. On a small 40-acre farm in central Minnesota, Olof Ohman and his two sons, Olof Jr., age 11, and Edward, age 10, ...

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, the Kensington Runestone has perplexed historians as to its authenticity – in 1898, Olof Ohman and his sons discovered the stone while clearing land for a field. On the stone ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Swedish linguist says a new analysis of the writing on the Kensington Runestone suggests the stone is more of a 19th-century prank than concrete evidence that Scandinavians beat Columbus to America ...

FARGO – Mike Scholtz is thrilled that his feature-length documentary, "Lost Conquest," headlines the opening day of the Fargo Film Festival on Tuesday night at the Fargo Theatre. While the movie is ...

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 roots of a tree in Minnesota in 1898 proves the ...

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