Joe Rogan Experience #2215 - Graham Hancock

Rongorongo

The enigmatic Rongorongo script of Easter Island remains one of the world's great unsolved mysteries. Graham Hancock highlights the script's unique presence on a small island with a population that once dwindled to just eleven people due to Peruvian slave raids 1. Despite its size, Easter Island developed a complex written language, inscribed on wooden tablets, which are now scattered in museums worldwide 1. The script's content, believed to include navigation instructions and community guidelines, is preserved only through fragmented oral traditions 2.

It bears some curious similarities to the Indus Valley script, which has also not been deciphered. And let's hope AI can decipher both of them.

--- Graham Hancock

The script's reading pattern, a snake-like sequence alternating directions, adds to its mystery, as does its potential connection to other undeciphered scripts like the Indus Valley script 2.

   

Moai Statues

The Moai statues of Easter Island are shrouded in mystery, particularly regarding their construction and burial. Graham Hancock argues that the statues' deep burial by sedimentation suggests they are much older than the commonly accepted age of 700 to 1,000 years 3. He references the work of geologist Robert Schoch, who identified the sedimentation issue as a chronological problem, indicating a longer timeline for the statues' existence 3.

This deep burial of these statues by natural sedimentation is a problem. It's a chronological problem that speaks to these statues being much older than we imagine they are.

--- Graham Hancock

Additionally, the discovery of 3,000-year-old banana phytoliths on the island challenges the notion that it was settled only a thousand years ago, suggesting an earlier Polynesian presence 4.