Case file · Folklore / legend
Hevesy links rongorongo to the Indus script
In 1932 the Hungarian scholar Guillaume de Hevesy announced that rongorongo signs resembled the newly found Indus Valley script, half a world away.
1932 CE · -27.12, -109.37 · status: claim
The account
The idea caused a sensation and still circulates in 'lost continent' writing, sometimes linked to Mu.
The sceptical view
The two scripts are separated by thousands of years and kilometres; specialists consider the resemblances coincidental or the result of selective comparison.