Father Sebastián Englert Museum

El Museo Antropológico Padre Sebastián Englert Chile

56 32 255 1020

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This small museum holds the island’s only remaining examples of the Rongorongo Tablets, the evidence of Easter Island’s original language. These tablets, made from a soft wood, were carved using a shark’s tooth. Interestingly, a culture developing its own alphabet from scratch has only happened five times in the world’s history (Mesopotamia, Mexico, Egypt, China and Easter Island).

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