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©2010
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Ohman's discovery -- Templar's tale -- Secret language -- Strange carvings -- Coded messages -- The Sinclair family -- New England stones -- The Newport tower -- Freemasonry
In 1898, a Minnesota farmer uproots a large stone covered with mysterious runes. Now known as the Kensington Rune Stone, it details a journey of land acquisition and murder-- in the year 1362. Thought by some to be a hoax, new evidence suggests it could be real, and a clue that the Knights Templar discovered America 100 years before Columbus, perhaps bringing with them history's greatest treasure-- the Holy Grail. See how symbols on the Rune Stone match Templar ruins all over Europe, on islands across the Atlantic Ocean, as well as in Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Executive producer for History, Michael Stiller
Narrator, James Lurie ; Scott Wolter, forensic geologist
Originally produced for History in 2009
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