In this video, the story of the undeciphered writing system from Easter Island called rongorongo is told. If it is confirmed as a legitimate writing system, it would be one of the few writing systems in the world created from scratch to represent spoken language. The potential translation of rongorongo could provide insight into the mysteries surrounding the Easter Island statues and the civilization that lived on the island. The story focuses on Eugène Eyraud, a novice catholic missionary who became the first outsider to live on Easter Island for nine months in 1864. During his stay, Eyraud discovered tablets of wood covered with strange hieroglyphs, which were ignored until Eyraud's discovery. Unfortunately, most of these tablets were destroyed or lost due to slave raids, tuberculosis, smallpox, and dysentery epidemics that ravaged the island's population. The surviving wooden artifacts count only 26* genuine inscriptions most of whom are either very short or badly damaged, making them almost illegible.

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