“Stone carving is a hard way to earn a living ... helps to set the paint that is brushed on to the letters. Raju, like many of his counterparts, ‘knows’ many languages by sight, and can ...

The carefully carved letters told a bone-chilling ... could help determine the truth of the stone’s message. But detailed chemical analysis of the carving’s crevices has yet to be done.

It is believed, but not proved, that the letters were etched in the stone ... to see “Indian Rock,” the name the carving had in 1928. The stone was 12 feet high, 10 feet wide, and 16 inches ...

A runestone is a large stone carved with runic inscriptions — usually in the early Germanic alphabet known as the futhark.