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First word from carbonised Herculaneum scroll discovered. There's every reason to believe the library was representative and contains many lost works.
First word from carbonised Herculaneum scroll discovered. There's every reason to believe the library was representative and contains many lost works.
The more times it's done the less impressive it feels.This is pretty cool; a radiocarbon date of about 1500 for a rongorongo board from Rapa Nui/Easter Island pushes back the date for the invention of the script to well before European contact, and potentially increases the minimum number of times writing was independently invented from three to four:
Undeciphered script from Easter Island may predate European colonization
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 the Rapa Nui people invented their own script without European influence.www.livescience.com