Magpieblog<p>The indigenous people of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) have always said that their rongorongo writing was very old, but were generally not believed until quite recently. Researchers have now dated one rongorongo text to 200 years before the island had any contact with Europeans.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/RapaNui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RapaNui</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/EasterIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EasterIsland</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/rongorongo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rongorongo</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Polynesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polynesia</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.archaeology.org/news/12151-240212-rongorongo-tablet-glyph" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeology.org/news/12151-240</span><span class="invisible">212-rongorongo-tablet-glyph</span></a></p>