Decipherment of rongorongo
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title:
Decipherment of rongorongo
text:
There have been numerous attempts to decipher the rongorongo script of Easter Island since its discovery in the late nineteenth century. As with most undeciphered scripts, many of the proposals have been fanciful. Apart from a portion of one tablet which has been shown to deal with a lunar calendar, none of the texts are understood, and even the calendar cannot actually be read. The evidence is weak that rongorongo directly represents the Rapa Nui language – that is, that it is a true writing sy
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Attempts to understand Easter Island script
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_rongorongo
date created:
2008-04-10T01:47:22Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T23:13:34Z
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