The indigenous writing of Easter Island, first mentioned in 1864, and still undeciphered. 1. Two Systems of Symbolic Writing - A comparison by Egbert Richter-Ushanas of the Indus Script and the Rongorongo Script of Easter Island. 2. A Genealogy on the Small Santiago Tablet? - Jacques Guy gives an image and resume of the argument by Yuri Knorozov and Nikolai Butinov in 1956 that a certain sequence of signs was compatible with a genealogy. 3. Easter Island's Rongorongo Script - Steven Fischer attempts to decipher the hieroglyphic writing of Easter Island. Includes a response to Jacques Guy's criticism. 4. Rongo Rongo Tablets - Pictures and samples of text including a partially translated lunar calendar. 5. Rongorongo Home Page - Papers by Sergei V. Rjabchikov regarding his research into this mysterious ancient language of Easter Island. 6. Rongorongo: The Easter Island Tablets - Jacques B.M. Guy describes this unique writing system and the attempts at its decipherment. Includes a critique of Stephen Fischer's proposed decipherment. 7. The Jaussen List - Bishop Jaussen's list of glyphs, with their readings as collected from his informant Metoro Tauara. Used by many as a key to decipherment. 8. The Rongorongo of Easter Island - Extensive corpus of Rongorongo hieroglyphic text, translation tools, Rapanui grammar and dictionary.

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