2. I wonder if any of these interested spectators knew old Greek well enough to understand at least some part of the text displayed and incised in parallel with the Egyptian hieroglyphs (on the Rosetta Stone):
It is not enough to know that rongorongo can be understood with help of a once common sign language, because this language is no longer common knowledge. Therefore we must try to learn this old half-forgotten sign language in parallel with the rongorongo signs. |
