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Rongorongo
Rongorongo ( or ; Rapa Nui: ) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that has the appearance of writing or proto-writing. Numerous attempts at decipherment have been made, but none have been successful. Although some calendrical and what might prove to be genealogical information has been identified, none of the glyphs can actually be read. If rongorongo does prove to be writing and to be an independent invention, it would be one of very few inventions of writing in human history.

Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
Thomas Barthel
German Mesoamericanist (1923-1997)
Florentin-Étienne Jaussen
French missionary
Irina Fyodorova
Soviet historian (1931–2010)
Eugène Eyraud
French missionary (1820-1868)
Alexander Ariipaea Salmon
Tahitian businessman
Rapa Nui calendar
lunisolar calendar of Easter Island
decipherment of rongorongo
attempts to understand Easter Island script