"This should not be random vandalism." After inspecting the carvings, Leonard Ethan nodded slightly and said to Joan, who was standing beside him.
The reason for making such a judgment is simple; this place is considered the holiest part of the entire cathedral, so normal people would not vandalize it.
More importantly, these characters were previously disguised as patterns beneath the church altar. If it were not for Leonard's expertise in this area, ordinary people might easily overlook this information.
After all, the current European common Latin alphabets and Cyrillic alphabets have completely different shapes from the Runestones. So, when these characters form a circle like this, most people would mistake them for a simple pattern instead of some text.
Leonard was able to recognize them because he had not only previously obtained a series of cards related to the ancient Vikings, but also because most of the excavations were related to the ancient Vikings.