La Verendrye's Stone

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye was a French Canadian explorer who retrieved an inscribed stone tablet from a hollowing of a naturally hewn sandstone pillar hoodoo. The event was recorded in an interview of La Vérendrye by Pehr Kalm, written about in publications by the Royal Society of Antiquaries in London, and written about by Alexander von Humboldt in his famous publication titled Views of Nature. [More]

Pehr Kalm's interview of La Vérendrye in his publication titled Travels. [More]

Tatarian script: The Tatar Mongolian the Jesuits described on the stone was derived from Aramaic script. Because the Jesuits believed the native people to be Tatar Mongolian they did not look at any other script then other than Tatar Mongolian. It could have been as easily Aramaic or proto Hebrew, because the Jesuits didn’t know how to read Tatarian Mongolian nor where they adepts at Aramaic or Hebrew. - L.B. Parry