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• - A comparison by Egbert Richter-Ushanas of the Indus Script and the Rongorongo Script of Easter Island.
  
• - Steven Fischer attempts to decipher the hieroglyphic writing of Easter Island. Includes a response to Jacques Guy's criticism.
  
• - Pictures and samples of text including a partially translated lunar calendar.
  
• - Bishop Jaussen's list of glyphs, with their readings as collected from his informant Metoro Tauara. Used by many as a key to decipherment.
  
• - Extensive corpus of Rongorongo hieroglyphic text, translation tools, Rapanui grammar and dictionary.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Jacques B.M. Guy describes this unique writing system and the attempts at its decipherment. Includes a critique of Stephen Fischer's proposed decipherment.
  
• - Papers by Sergei V. Rjabchikov claiming to decode this mysterious script.