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Easter Island's Wooden Script Still Won't Talk
Easter Island's Wooden Script Still Won't TalkRapa Nui left a wooden script nobody can read. A 2024 dating of four boards in Rome puts one tree at 1493 to 1509, before European ships in the 1720s. That is the wood, not a signature.
Duration: 6:01
- Scientific Reports — Ferrara et al. 2024 rongorongo dates
- University of Bologna INSCRIBE articles
- contact wood date
- be-deciphered/a-75249574- National Geographic — lost scripts, Rongorongo aside
- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- dw.com
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