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Archaeologists working on Easter Island say a recent discovery could change long-standing ideas about the island’s past. The finding involves ancient wooden tablets covered in mysterious glyphs that ...

The new research “challenges commonly accepted ideas about the development” of ancient cultures. Groundbreaking research undertaken by Uppsala University and published in the journal Antiquity (via ...

Archaeologists using radiocarbon dating have found evidence that the Rongorongo writing system on Easter Island may have been invented independently of European influence, potentially representing the ...

For decades, archaeologists have debated whether the writing system of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), known as Rongorongo, was invented independently or influenced by Europeans. A study that uses ...