Rosetta stone coffee mug , £7.99 Length: 22.000 cm Width: 6.800
cm Africa, Oceania, Americas Wooden tablet with rongorongo
inscription From Easter Island, Polynesia, Probably mid-19th
century AD It is believed that the rongorongo script was
developed on Easter Island some time after the Spanish visit in
1770, possibly inspired by a written document of annexation
given to the islanders to sign. However, from the 1860s the
islanders began to lose the ability to read it, and no
inhabitant of Easter Island is able to read it today. rongorongo
came from the Polynesian island of Mangareva, and was applied to
the script carved on staves or tablets used as Several scholars
have tried to decipher the script but as yet without complete
success, hindered by the small number of tablets. It appears to
be a writing system which mixes ideographs (where each concept
is represented by a symbol) with a phonetic alphabet. The
inscription on this example is executed as a continuous line of
glyphs starting from the lower left-han