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After successfully deciphering the Rongorongo script of Easter
Island, Steven Roger Fischer gained a unique place in the pantheon
of glyphbreakers: he is the only person to have deciphered not one
but two ancient scripts. Both of these scripts yield clues of great
historical importance. Fischers previous decipherment, of a Cretan
artefact called the Phaistos Disk, provided the key to the ancient
Minoan language and showed it to be closely related to Mycenaean
Greek. Fischer's decipherment of Rongorongo shows that it was not
merely a mnemonic device for recalling memorised texts, but was
actually read and used for creative composition. This is the
exciting story of these two decipherments, by the man who now must
rank as the greatest glyphbreaker of all time.
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