A 200-year-old Swedish runic carving found in Canada turns out to be the Lord’s Prayer — and may be linked to eerie celestial signs at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion.

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He identified the characters as Nordic runes, part of an old alphabet once used in Sweden and other parts of Scandinavia. It was a surprising find in the middle of Canada, but researchers later ...

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An eerie rock with 255 symbols, that experts have now deciphered to be the Lord's Prayer, was found in a Canadian forest, with many believing it's a 'sign' linked to the death of Jesus ...

Discovered in 2018 after a tree fell near Wawa, Ontario (just a stone’s throw from Michigan), the bizarre runes had stumped many — until Ryan Primrose from Ontario’s archaeology squad ...

The stone tells a dramatic story about Scandinavian explorers in Minnesota. The translated message states: “8 Goths [Swedes] ...

Archaeologists remain baffled by a surprising, seemingly ahistorical find located deep in the Canadian wilderness. But after years of research, analysis, and historical corroboration, an ...

Deep in the northern Ontario bush, strange runes on a stone have perplexed archaeologists. The runes are Swedish in origin. Who made them, and why?