About 30 wooden objects from the remote island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, in the South Pacific Sea bear an engraved script that remains untranslated. Experts have long wondered whether ...
An engraved wooden tablet found on the Pacific Island, Rapa Nui, (Easter Island) has been identified as centuries older than the European colonisation of the island, supporting the idea that a local ...
A wooden tablet inscribed with the undeciphered rongorongo script from Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) dates to the 15th century, long before Europeans arrived. This early date suggests that ...
Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is one of the most isolated places in the world, located around 3,600 miles off the coast of Chile, which annexed the territory in 1888. The eponymous island is named for ...
The spread of the Polynesian culture across the Pacific was the greatest migration in humanity’s history. All indications are that the Polynesians started in Taiwan and made it to the Americas while ...